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“He should so be in jail”: An Empirical Study on Preverbal So in American English “他应该被关进监狱”——美国英语前体so的实证研究
IF 0.8 2区 文学
Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220979116
Ulrike Stange
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引用次数: 1
Intensification in Eighteenth Century Medical Writing 18世纪医学写作的强化
IF 0.8 2区 文学
Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220982649
Turo Hiltunen
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引用次数: 1
A Little Something Goes a Long Way: Little in the Old Bailey Corpus 小事情走了很长的路:小在老贝利语料库
IF 0.8 2区 文学
Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220982063
C. Claridge, E. Jonsson, Merja Kytö
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引用次数: 2
“He loved his father but next to adored his mother”: Nigh(ly), Near, and Next (To) as Downtoners “他爱他的父亲，但其次是崇拜他的母亲”:Nigh(ly)， Near和next (to)作为降调
IF 0.8 2区 文学
Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220979126
L. Brinton
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引用次数: 1
Book Review: Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes 书评：语料库语言学与非洲英语
IF 0.8 2区 文学
Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-02-10 DOI: 10.1177/0075424221992101
Frank Polzenhagen
{"title":"Book Review: Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes","authors":"Frank Polzenhagen","doi":"10.1177/0075424221992101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0075424221992101","url":null,"abstract":"Lippi-Green, Rosina. 1994. Accent, standard language ideology, and discriminatory pretext in courts. Language in Society 23. 163-198. Mathews, Mitford M. 1951. A dictionary of Americanisms on historical principles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Silverstein, Michael. 2003. Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life. Language & Communication 23(3/4). 193-229. Winchester, Simon. 1998. The professor and the madman: A tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. Moosic, PA: HarperCollins.","PeriodicalId":51803,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0075424221992101","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45391604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
What a Change! A Diachronic Study of Exclamative What Constructions 好大的变化啊!感叹句What结构的历时性研究
IF 0.8 2区 文学
Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-02-04 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220986612
L. Ghesquière, F. Troughton
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引用次数: 1
Book Review: The Emergence and Development of English: An Introduction 书评:英语的产生和发展:导论
IF 0.8 2区 文学
Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220987592
Annina Seiler
{"title":"Book Review: The Emergence and Development of English: An Introduction","authors":"Annina Seiler","doi":"10.1177/0075424220987592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0075424220987592","url":null,"abstract":"Eckert, Penelope. 2018. Meaning and linguistic variation: The third wave in sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Labov, William. 2001. Principles of linguistic change: Social factors. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Mitchell, Alexander George & Arthur Delbridge. 1965. The speech of Australian adolescents: A survey. Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Niedzielski, Nancy A. & Dennis R. Preston. 2000. Folk linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Preston, Dennis R. 1993. The uses of folk linguistics. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 3(2). 181-259.","PeriodicalId":51803,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138505825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Book Review: English After RP: Standard British Pronunciation Today 书评：RP之后的英语：今日标准英语发音
IF 0.8 2区 文学
Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-01-19 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220982352
A. Fabricius
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引用次数: 0
“A Good Deal of Intensity”: On the Development of Degree and Quantity Modifier Good “大力度”：论程度和数量修饰善的发展
IF 0.8 2区 文学
Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-01-15 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220980046
L. Ghesquière
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引用次数: 2
Book Review: New England English: Large-Scale Acoustic Sociophonetics and Dialectology 书评:《新英格兰英语:大尺度声学、社会语音学与方言学》
IF 0.8 2区 文学
Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.1177/0075424220982344
Aaron J. Dinkin
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