Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 4737
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1075/lal.25
- Publisher
- John Benjamins
- ISBN
- 9789027234148
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Hodson's contribution to the publication was that - in collaboration with her co-editors - she established the intellectual ambitions of the volume, which were to identify and bring into conversation with one another current methodologies in the historical study of style. She worked with her co-editors to identify suitable authors that were invited to participate, and edited the essays they submitted. She wrote the first draft of the introduction (1-12) and oversaw later drafts, identifying additional sections to be added by her co-editors and putting together the final version. The introduction provides a survey of the field of historical literary linguistics, its development and current work in the field. She also contributes a chapter to the volume entitled ‘Jane Austen and the prescriptivists’ (151-170) which considers what evidence there is for Austen’s attitude toward language variation and change. She argues that Austen was writing at a time when language attitudes and language practices were undergoing rapid change, and that it is the task of the historical literary linguist to try to reconstruct those changes in order to understand how Austen made use of them within her writing.
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- Non-English
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