"This volume brings together a selection of the papers presented at the 8th Nordic Conference of English Studies which took place in Goteborg, May 24-27 2001. The aim of the conference was to bring together scholars from the Nordic countries with an interest in English language, literature, culture and teaching. The variety of interests is represented in the contributions to the volume which also contains contributions some of the plenary speakers at the conference. The book also includes a newly written poem by Tony Harrison. Contents include: Polysemy and ambiguity, The last colony of the British Empire: some reflections on the idea of Britain today, On the centrality of stylistics, Syntax and style in some Middle English metrical romances with special reference to the displacement of syntactic components, The suffix - wise: Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty?, `Am I really really mature or something': Really in teentalk, Repair, learning and foreign language talk-in-interaction: a conversation analytic approach. The preposition By in the English passive, Genre, gender and power: a study of address forms in seven Canterbury Tales, Clustering in verb phrases, On collocations in bllingual lexicography, The language of love and the conceptualization of power during the reign of Elizabeth I, Sustained romantic radicalism in the writings of Blake, Hays and Wollstonecraft, Uncovering ""the sacred and mysterious veil"": Mary Hays' use of monological epistolarity in Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796), ""This duty must be established into a principle, and wrought into a habit:"" Hannah More and the nineteenth-century self-improvement ethos, The sensation of narrative: strategies of representation in The Woman in White and Dracula, From the flying trunk to celestial omnibus: Hans Andersen's influence on the English Kunstmarchen, The ""invisible line"": The hidden perspective in Evelyn Waugh's Novel Brideshead Revisited, Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are not the only fruit. The quest for self, Beyond the borders of home: The subject-in-exile in the work of the two contemporary Irish women poets Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and Nuala Ni Dhomhnail, ""Making sense: Mapping in Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha,"" When metaphors and `direct' sense impressions work together: a description of an approach, and a search for terminology, The ins and outs of the Mise en Abyme, Outside of things. Swedish emigrants, the English language and the Canadian prairie dream, Interactive learning in culture studies, Problems, procedures, and directions for computer assisted teaching."

This comprehensive, state-of-the-art bibliography documents the most recent research activity in the vibrant field of language, gender and sexuality. It provides experts in the field and students in tertiary education with access to language-centred resources on gender and sexuality and is, therefore, an ideal research companion. The main part of the bibliography lists 3,454 relevant publications (monographs, edited volumes, journal articles and contributions to edited volumes) that have been published within the period from 2000 to 2011. It unites work done in linguistics with that of neighbouring disciplines, covering studies dealing with a broad range of languages and cultures around the globe. Alphabetical listing and a keyword index facilitate finding relevant work by author and subject matter. The e-book version additionally enables users to search the entire document for specific terms. Sections on earlier bibliographies and general reference works on language, gender and sexuality complete the compilation.

In this coherent historical development of the passive voice in English, the main argument deals not only with the passive per se, but also with its related constructions, which can play vital parts in identifying both functional and structural motivations for creating the passive.

This volume describes the development of Standard English from Middle English onwards.

This volume includes 36 papers by an international selection of scholars which were presented at the 5th Nordic Conference for English Studies, held in Reykjavik August 7-8, 1992. Topics covered include linguistics, English as a foreign language, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, English literature and Canadian literature.

The Handbook of Historical Pragmatics provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in pragmatics devoted to a diachronic study of language use and human interaction in context. It covers all areas of historical pragmatics from grammaticalization theory to pragmatic entities, such as discourse markers, speech acts and politeness to individual discourse domains from scientific writing to literary discourse. Each contribution, written by a leading specialist, gives a succinct, representative and up-to-date overview of research questions, theories, methods and recent developments in the field.

In this book, Nydia Flores-Ferrán offers a comprehensive examination of linguistic intensification in Spanish and English communication. Flores-Ferrán examines how intensification is defined as well as the various linguistic features, strategies, and devices we employ to escalate and amplify our oral and written communication. The book builds on a rich body of literature, exploring the conceptualization of linguistic intensification within socio-pragmatics and Persuasion Theory. This book also demonstrates the applicability of intensification in language learning by discussing techniques native speakers use to amplify the illocution of their communication.

The result of extensive archival investigation, this meticulously researched book collects and describes for the first time the extant literary manuscripts and letters of the celebrated Bluestocking writer and Evangelical philanthropist Hannah More (1745-1833). Participating in the ongoing recovery of eighteenth-century women writers, Nicholas D. Smith's survey is an indispensable reference work not only for More scholars but for those researching the careers of many of her contemporaries. Features include an extended narrative analysis of the manuscripts that plots More's participation in the manuscript culture of the period and contextualizes the individual entries in the index; provenance details for the more substantial manuscript holdings in British and North American repositories; and identification of numerous autograph manuscripts and transcripts in public and private collections. More than 1,500 letters in 95 locations in Britain and North America have been inventoried and precise dates and internal locators are supplied when known. More's letters, the majority of which have never been published, are a largely untapped source of primary materials for scholars and students researching such diverse subjects as the literary activities and opinions of the Bluestocking circle, women's conduct and education, publishing and the book trade, the national debate over the abolition of the slave trade, the rise of the Evangelical movement, the conservative reaction to the American and French revolutions, and the Napoleonic wars.