Abstract
Article Sandra Jansen & Lucia Siebers (eds.): Processes of Change. Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English (Studies in Language Variation 21) was published on April 1, 2021 in the journal Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics (volume 7, issue 1).
Highlights
This “kaleidoscopic perspective” is achieved by considering both Late Modern and Present-Day English, and by the fact that processes of change are scrutinised on multiple linguistic levels, different sources are used to elicit data, and multiple varieties of English are considered
Variousfields and topics in Englishlinguistics are represented in this volume, such as for example prescriptivism vs. descriptivism, reflecting the wide array of fields that Hickey has contributed to over the years
Besides showing how the third-wave concepts of indexicality and enregisterment can be fruitfully applied to historic texts, Beal’s contribution reminds the reader that there are key differences in studying registers from past communities compared to those from the present day, and that one cannot apply modern ideological frameworks regarding ‘correct/ good’ and ‘incorrect/bad’ language use to historic metalinguistic comments
Summary
This “kaleidoscopic perspective” is achieved by considering both Late Modern and Present-Day English, and by the fact that processes of change are scrutinised on multiple linguistic levels (phonetics, vocabulary, grammar, discourse), different sources are used to elicit data (historical corpora, metalinguistic commentaries, ego-documents, dictionaries, spoken language and survey data), and multiple varieties of English are considered
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