Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics
Edited by Tanja Säily, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 7] 2017. vii, 331 pp.
Anita Auer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anita Auer plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson
Edited by Anita Auer, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 25] 2016. vi, 216 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2014
Edited by Anita Auer and Björn Köhnlein
[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 31] 2014. v, 191 pp.
Subjects Theoretical linguistics
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013
Edited by Suzanne Aalberse and Anita Auer
[Linguistics in the Netherlands, 30] 2013. iv, 213 pp.
Subjects Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2024 Weaving data strands together: Towards assembling Norwich’s historical urban vernacular Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell, Hendriks, Jennifer and B. Richard Page (eds.), pp. 164–187 | Chapter
The important role of historical cities as centers of higher literacy and text production in the standardization processes of written languages has been recognized some time ago by scholars working on different languages. The current article, which is couched in the study of urban vernaculars in… read more
2017 The future of historical sociolinguistics? Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics, Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Chapter
In this chapter we discuss the current achievements of historical sociolinguistics and highlight new insights provided by the contributions in the volume. Taking the essay by Nevalainen (2015) as a starting point, we will consider the themes of crossing boundaries and bridging gaps between… read more
2016 Chapter 2. The origin and development of the iffy-an(d) conjunction Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson, Auer, Anita, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova (eds.), pp. 31–48 | Article
The an(d) conjunction, whose primary function in present-day English is
coordination, could introduce conditional clauses in earlier stages of English,
most notably during the Middle English and the Early Modern English periods
(Rissanen 1999: 281). This particular use of the conjunction, which… read more
2016 Introduction Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson, Auer, Anita, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
2015 Social stratification and stylistic choices in Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, Delabastita, Dirk and Ton Hoenselaars (eds.), pp. 137–160 | Article
The English playwright Thomas Dekker belonged to a generation of dramatists, along with Shakespeare and Jonson, who, particularly in comedy, discriminated their characters through lexical and stylistic choices. This new conception of the dramatic character is well illustrated in Dekker’s play The… read more
2014 Nineteenth-century English: Norms and usage Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective, Rutten, Gijsbert, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 151–170 | Article
This paper focuses on language variation and change in nineteenth-century England. The first part of the paper is concerned with grammar writing and the influence that grammatical norms may have had on the English language. The second part of the paper takes a closer look at actual language usage.… read more
2014 Foreword Linguistics in the Netherlands 2014, Auer, Anita and Björn Köhnlein (eds.), p. | Article
2014 Letters of Artisans and the Labouring Poor (England, c. 1750–1835): Approaching linguistic diversity in Late Modern English Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English, Pfenninger, Simone E., Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier (eds.), pp. 187–212 | Article
Histories of linguistic variability and language standardization in Late Modern England have predominantly focused on the well-educated layers of society. This paper aims at providing a more complete overview of language use during that period by focusing on the lower social ranks. The discussion… read more
2013 Social stratification and stylistic choices in Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday Multilingualism in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Delabastita, Dirk and Ton Hoenselaars (eds.), pp. 134–157 | Article
The English playwright Thomas Dekker belonged to a generation of dramatists, along with Shakespeare and Jonson, who, particularly in comedy, discriminated their characters through lexical and stylistic choices. This new conception of the dramatic character is well illustrated in Dekker’s play The… read more