Norms and Conventions in the History of English.

Intro -- NORMS AND CONVENTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Linguistic norms and conventions: Past and Present -- References -- Usage guides and the Age of Prescriptivism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. On the rise of prescriptivism -- 3. The earliest English usage guides -- 4. Irregular verbs: A case study -- 5. The effects of prescriptivism -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- "Splendidly prejudiced": Words for disapproval in English usage books -- References -- Appendix A. Usage guides in Complete-handbook Corpus (CHC) -- Appendix B. Search terms -- Paradigm shifts in 19th-century British grammar writing: A network of texts and authors -- 1. Introduction: 19th-century grammar writing -- 2. The corpus and methodology -- 3. Results of network and frequency analysis -- 4. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Corpus of 19th-century grammar books -- Other grammar books -- Appendix. Search terms used in network analysis -- Promotional conventions on English title-pages up to 1550: Modifiers of time, scope, and quality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Promotional paratext and the early development of the title-page -- 3. Advertising discourse -- 4. The present study -- 5. Modifiers of time, scope, and quality on early English title-pages -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- What can we learn from constructed speech errors? Mrs Malaprop revisited -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Defining malapropisms -- 3. Mrs Malaprop's language: A literary sociolect -- 4. Mrs Malaprop's malapropisms and modern speech error typology: Terminological questions and problems -- 5. Testing Mrs Malaprop: A sample analysis of structural features -- 6. Malapropisms and semantics -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix.

The proverbial discourse tradition in the history of English: A usage-based view -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Proverbs in phraseological and psycholinguistic research -- 3. The dual-layer storage model of proverb representation -- 4. Proverbs, discourse traditions, and practices of usage -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Testing a stylometric tool in the study of Middle English documentary texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. Material: A Corpus of Middle English Local Documents -- 4. Method -- 5. Analysis -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Pragmatic and formulaic uses of shall and will in Older Scots and Early Modern English official letter writing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Source material and method -- 3. Predictive shall and will -- 4. Intentional shall and will and the role of commissive speech acts -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Studying dialect spelling in its own right: Suggestions from a case study -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts and terminology -- 3. A case study of ulster scots -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.

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