Del 107 - Austrian Studies in English

Language Contact and the History of English

Processes and Effects on Specific Text-Types

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Gabriella Mazzon

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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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Utgivningsdatum2022-12-30
Mått148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt407 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAustrian Studies in English
Antal sidor258
FörlagPeter Lang AG
ISBN9783631846629

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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.