Language

doi:10.1017/9781316137062.P03

Part III - Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2019

David Crystal

Edited by

Bruce R. Smith

Edited in association with

Katherine Rowe

With

Ton Hoenselaars ,

Akiko Kusunoki ,

Andrew Murphy and

Aimara da Cunha Resende

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Bruce R. Smith: Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe: Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars: Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki: Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy: Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende: Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

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dialect discourse language variation parts of speech style adjective adverb The Arte of English Poesie Arte of Rhetorique auxiliary borrowing coinage comparative compound consonants conversion derivation dictionary Early Modern English English grammar grammar Great Vowel Shift language change Late Middle English literacy loanword morphology national identity negation noun orthography pronoun pronunciation Reformation rhetorics speech spelling style superlative syntax A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Words verb vocabulary vowels word order accent Crystal, David dialect Globe (playhouse)language evolution original practices linguistics original pronunciation pronunciation Royal Shakespeare Company articles clause organization comparison do-periphrasis possessives relatives verbal system affective meaning collocation discourse analysis dyad honorific idiolect marked and unmarked forms pragmatic competence pronouns (vocative and oblique)speech acts transgressive language tu and vous T-V distinction classical languages Dutch Europe foreigners foreign language(s)French Greek Italian language language learning Latin Ovid Spanish Welsh Bible dictionary(ies)Douay-Rheims Bible King James Bible language learning lexicon(s)Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)“stranger” (foreign) languages “strangers” (foreigners)translation(s)classical translation Classics grammar school mistranslation Ovid Quince translation women broken English class dialect dialect education foreign languages French grammar Henry V inkhorn language the King’s English Latin linguistics pronunciation regional dialect Scottish southwestern English stage dialect thieves’ cant Welsh Cicero conceit education Erasmus historical plays oration persuasion process schooling character coinages neologisms phrases rhetoric tropes wordplay words authorship new-optics analysis stylistic analysis coinage language linguistics neologism Oxford English Dictionary (OED)phrases senses words

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