edited by Birte Bös, University of Duisburg-Essen ; Claudia Claridge, University of Augsburg.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Philadelphia :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2019]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (215 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Current issues in linguistic theory,
Volume Designation
volume 347
ISSN of Series
0304-0763 ;
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Linguistic norms and conventions: past and present / Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge -- Usage guides and the age of prescriptivism / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade -- "Splendidly prejudiced": words for disapproval in English usage books / Don Chapman -- Paradigm shifts in 19th-century British grammar writing: a network of texts and authors / Beatrix Busse, Kirsten Gather and Ingo Kleiber -- Promotional conventions on English title pages up to 1550: modifiers of time, scope, and quality / Mari-liisa Varila and Matti Peikola -- What can we learn from constructed speech errors? Mrs Malaprop revisited / Lucia Kornexl -- The proverbial discourse tradition in the history of English: a usage-based view / Claudia lkert -- Testing a stylometric tool in the study of Middle English documentary texts / Martti Mäkinen -- Pragmatic and formulaic uses of shall and will in older Scots and early modern English official letter writing / Christine Elsweiler -- Studying dialect spelling in its own right: suggestions from a case study / Gan Wolf.