Language Contact and the History of English: Processes and Effects on Specific Text-Types (Austrian Studies in English, Band 107) - Hardcover

Mazzon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3631846622 ISBN 13: 9783631846629

Verlag: Peter Lang, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

The fact that English has always borrowed heavily from other languages is well known. However, the systemic long-term effects of the processes involved in such contacts are under-researched. This collection of articles takes a more wide-spanning approach, looking at various periods and phenomena across the centuries. The volume focusses on language contact seen as cultural contact, especially with Scandinavia and France, as well as on specific text types from times ranging from Old English to the twentieth century. The volume aims at advancing insight on the ways in which contacts with other languages and cultures influenced the English language as a whole. The book provides new reflections on borrowing and lexical innovation as cultural choices bound to different textual traditions.

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Gabriella Mazzon was born in Naples, Italy. She has worked in various Italian universities and is full professor of English linguistics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria since 2011. She has published extensively on varieties of English and the use of English in post-colonial contexts, on English negation and on historical (socio)pragmatics, especially terms of address, discourse markers, modality, stance in correspondence and dramatic dialogue.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3631846622
• ISBN 13: 9783631846629
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258
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