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Colloquialisation: Twenty-five years on.
- Source :
- Journal of Historical Pragmatics; 2024, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p193-214, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Surveying a representative sample of studies of colloquialisation, a tendency for written norms to move closer to spoken usage, the chapter explores: the relationship between colloquialisation, operationalised in exclusively linguistic terms, and informalisation and democratisation, two processes primarily targeting wider sociocultural change, and complications arising when colloquialisation is extended beyond its original domain of application, standard written English of the ENL type. There are two major findings. Colloquialisation works less well in the study of ESL varieties than ENL ones. In addition, recent real-time analyses of change in spoken English suggest that the supposedly homogeneous baseline style of informal conversational English is more internally variable than is assumed in current work on colloquialisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ENGLISH language usage
SPOKEN English
ENGLISH language
DEMOCRATIZATION
DISCOURSE
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15665852
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Historical Pragmatics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 178947396
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.00073.mai