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"Various kinds of text which document the history of English form the focus of the current volume. Vernacular speech in writing and orality along with issues of literacy and manuscripts are highlighted. The value of text corpora in the collection and analysis of historical data is demonstrated in several chapters"--
List of contents
General editor's introduction Raymond Hickey; Introduction to Volume IV Raymond Hickey; Part I. Language Variation and Change: 1. Sociolinguistic sources of change Devyani Sharma; 2. Lifespan changes Isabelle Buchstaller and Susanne Evans-Wagner; 3. Supraregional varieties, standards and vernaculars Raymond Hickey; 4. Historical divisions and perceptual dialectology Chris Montgomery; Part II. English in England: 5. Dialects dialectology and history of English Warren Maguire; 6. History of received pronunciation Anne Fabricius; 7. Early London English Laura Wright; 8. The recent history of London English Susan Fox; 9. English in South-West of England Susanne Wagner; 10. English in East Anglia David Britain and Robert Potter; 11. English in midlands Esther Asprey and Natalie Braber; 12. English in Merseyside Anthony Grant and Raymond Hickey; 13. English in Tyneside Adam Mearns; Part III. English in Wales: 14. History of English in Wales Robert Penhallurick; Part IV. English in Scotland: 15. History of Scots Joanna Kopaczyk; 16. Lexicography of Scots Maggie Scott; 17. Scots and Scottish standard English Jane Stuart-Smith and Rachel Macdonald; 18. English in Orkney and Shetland Peter Sundkvist; Part V. English in Ireland: 19. History and diffusion of Irish English Raymond Hickey; 20. Southern Irish English Raymond Hickey; 21. Northern Irish English Raymond Hickey; Part VI. English in Europe: 22. English in Channel Islands Heinrich Ramisch; 23. English in Gibraltar Christina Suárez-Gómez and Elena Seoane; 24. English in Malta Alexandra Vella and Sarah Grech; 25. English in Cyprus Sarah Buschfeld and Manuela Vida-Mannl.
About the author
Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland and former Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg and Essen, Germany. His recent publications include Listening to the Past (2017), The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics (2017), English in Multilingual South Africa (2020), The Handbook of Language Contact (2020), Sounds of English Worldwide (2023) and The Oxford Handbook of Irish English (2024).
