Foreword

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Chapter 1. Voices of English 1
6. Part I. Early Modern English
7. Chapter 2. Pragmatic noise in Shakespeare’s plays 11
8. Chapter 3. Keywords that characterise Shakespeare’s (anti)heroes and villains 31
9. Chapter 4. Revealing speech 47
10. Chapter 5. Saying, crying, replying, and continuing 63
11. Chapter 6. Interjections in early popular literature 79
12. Chapter 7. Godly vocabulary in Early Modern English religious debate 95
13. Chapter 8. Patterns of reader involvement on sixteenth-century English title pages, with special reference to second-person pronouns 113
14. Part II. Late Modern English
15. Chapter 9. Epistemic adverbs in the Old Bailey Corpus 133
16. Chapter 10. Question strategies in the Old Bailey Corpus 153
17. Chapter 11. Sure in Irish English 173
18. Chapter 12. American English gotten 187
19. Part III. Present-day English
20. Chapter 13. Explaining explanatory so 207
21. Chapter 14. Return to the future 227
22. Chapter 15. Sort of and kind of from an English-Swedish perspective 247
23. Chapter 16. From yes to innit 265
24. Chapter 17. “If anyone would have told me, I would have not believed it” 283
25. Chapter 18. Intensification in dialogue vs. narrative in a corpus of present-day English fiction 301
26. Chapter 19. Orality on the searchable web 317
27. Select list of publications by Merja Kytö 337
28. Index 347