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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.

Cover Fiasko - Scheitern in der Frühen Neuzeit; Inhalt; Editorial. Fiasko - Scheitern in der Frühen Neuzeit; "A full Account of the rise, progress and declension of our Journal". Negotiations of failure in early English newspapers; Projektemacher. Zum Hintergrund ökonomischen Scheiterns in der Frühen Neuzeit; The Darién Scheme. Failure and its treatment in the press; Fragments as Failed Texts. Conceptual Problems in Thomas More's History of King Richard III and Percy Bysshe Shelley's A Philosophical View of Reform; A Miserable Sight. The Great Fire of London (1666)

Wie stellen sich Menschen ihre Zukunft vor und wie gehen sie damit um, wenn sie keinen Erfolg haben? Moralische Urteile über den Scheiternden sind die Regel - ein schamvoller Rückzug aus der Welt oft die Reaktion. Jedoch: Verlierer sind prädestiniert dafür, aus dem Scheitern zu lernen, über den Zustand der Welt und das eigene Handeln nachzudenken. Was bedeutet das für die Vorstellung von der Reflexivität der Moderne? Und gilt das bereits für die Epoche der Frühen Neuzeit? Die Beiträge des Bandes widmen sich diesen Fragen - über die disziplinären Grenzen zwischen Germanistik, Anglistik, Geschichtswissenschaft und Theologie hinweg.

The development of intensifiers has long been identified as an area of vibrant change in Late Modern English. This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive study of intensifiers in this period, and shows how they have changed over time. It uses speech-based and interactive data from the Old Bailey courthouse in London, enriched by extralinguistic information in the Old Bailey Corpus, to investigate an unprecedented range of intensifiers, including downtoners, boosters, and maximizers. The courtroom acts as a social microcosm of the period, providing unique insights on gender, class, and courtroom roles, and their effects on language use. The usage of intensifiers is illuminated from a lexico-grammatical angle, focusing on their formal and semantic features, as well as those of the items they modify. These perspectives are linked to temporal developments from 1720 to 1913, to offer a complete picture of variation and change in the intensifier area.

"Drawing on a rich bank of data from the Old Bailey Corpus, this groundbreaking book provides the first full study of intensifiers in Late Modern English. It shows how usage varies for a wide variety of reasons, making it essential reading for scholars and advanced students in English historical linguistics"--