ISBN: 9789519040165 - Variation Past and Present: Varieng Studies on English for Terttu Nevalainen (mémoires De La Société Néophilologique De Helsinki) (1 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. Text in English. 378 pp. Minor shelf wear. The English language in its many shapes from the earliest surviving texts to present-day media language and dialect speech is the subject of this book. The materials studied range from electronic, structured corpora to works of fiction, the unifying theme being variation and variablity of language. The book's nineteen articles tackle social, regional, generic and pragmatic issues diachronically and synchronically. This volume, a Festschrift for Professor Terttu Nevalainen, Director of the Research Unit for Variation and Change in English at the University of Helsinki, offers an overview of the research carried out in the unit.…