English in Transition
Subtitle: Corpus-Based Studies in Linguistic Variation and Genre Styles (Topics in English Linguistics, 23) (Topics in English Linguistics)
Contributors: Matti Rissanen (Editor); Merja Kyto (Editor); Kirsi Heikkonen (Editor)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: September 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9783110156324
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Variation; General; English Language History; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; English; Language; Discourse Analysis; Early modern, 1500-1700; English language; Style
First sentence: The last two decades have seen a rapid increase and methodological development in the studies of variation in language.