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Verbs of Speaking and the Linguistic Expression of Communication in the History of English

Verbs of Speaking and the Linguistic Expression of Communication in the History of English

Hauf, Christoph Anton Xaver
Lenker, Ursula

Hardcover

Series: Muse: Munich Studies in English, Book 47

GermanItalianLinguistics

ISBN10: 3631829558
ISBN13: 9783631829554
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Aug 18 2021
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

English verbs of speaking have been affected by profound and intriguing changes, in particular between Old and Middle English. These changes crucially involve the loss of the verb cwe an and its replacement by say, which remains the most common verb of speaking to this day. The present study provides an exhaustive corpus-based, cross-period, and multi-dimensional appraisal of verbs of speaking used as part of the linguistic expression of communication in the history of English situated within a frame-semantic and constructionist framework. Moreover, it elucidates the fascinating changes affecting the verbs used to talk about communication between Old and Middle English. Also, this study sheds light on the functions of medially placed reporting clauses emerging in the Middle English period.

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