Nicola McLelland

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List of John Benjamins publications in which Nicola McLelland is involved.

Journal

Historiographia Linguistica

International Journal for the History of the Language Sciences

Edited by Jean-Michel Fortis and Otto Zwartjes

ISSN 0302-5160 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9781

Title

Standardization: Studies from the Germanic languages

Edited by Andrew R. Linn and Nicola McLelland

This volume presents fourteen case studies of standardization processes in eleven different Germanic languages. Together, the contributions confront problematic issues in standardization which will be of interest to sociolinguists, as well as to historical linguists from all language disciplines.… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 235] 2002. xii, 258 pp.

Articles (11) | Order by:

McLelland, Nicola 2023 Adelung’s English-German dictionary (1783, 1796): Its achievements and its relationship to the dictionaries of Samuel Johnson and Johannes Ebers Historiographia Linguistica 50:1, pp. 62–93 | Article

This article examines Johann Christoph Adelung’s English–German dictionary (1783, 1796). The dictionary deserves our attention because it was undertaken by the author of a ground–breaking German dictionary (Adelung 1774–86, 21793–1801), working from Samuel Johnson’s equally epoch–making English… read more

McLelland, Nicola 2020 The history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in the history of linguistics History of Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, (ICHoLS 14), Paris, 28 August – 1 September, Aussant, Émilie and Jean-Michel Fortis (eds.), pp. 189–204 | Chapter

Fifty years after two of the first overviews of the history of language teaching (Titone 1968, Kelly 1969), this paper highlights the value of the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) to the history of linguistics, from three perspectives: (1) theoretical and descriptive insights;… read more

McLelland, Nicola 2018 Mining foreign language teaching manuals for the history of pragmatics Journal of Historical Pragmatics 19:1, pp. 28–54 | Article

Foreign language learning manuals can be valuable sources for the history of pragmatics and historical pragmatics. They may contain explicit guidance on pragmatics not found in native-speaker grammars. For example, accounts of German forms of address in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century… read more

McLelland, Nicola 2014 Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective, Rutten, Gijsbert, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 251–276 | Article

This chapter examines the relationship between language prescription and language use in seventeenth-century German, reporting on a corpus investigation of the influence (or otherwise) of the leading grammarian Justus Georg Schottelius (1612–1676) on language usage. Drawing on a variety of corpora… read more

McLelland, Nicola 2011 Lessons from literary theory: Applying the notion of transtextuality (Genette 1982) to early modern German grammars History of Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), 28 August - 2 September 2008, Potsdam, Haßler, Gerda (ed.), pp. 187–200 | Article

This article applies a well-established variant of intertextuality theory, transtextuality (Genette 1982), to Schottelius’s Ausführliche Arbeit der Teutschen HaubtSprache (1663), in order to show the potential of such an approach in linguistic historiography.

McLelland, Nicola 2010 Regards croisés sur les mots non simples. Edited by Barbara Kaltz Historiographia Linguistica 37:3, pp. 434–438 | Review

McLelland, Nicola 2010 Justus Georgius Schottelius (1612–1676) and European Linguistic Thought Historiographia Linguistica 37:1/2, pp. 1–30 | Article

This article re-evaluates the significance of the 17th-century grammarian Justus Georgius Schottelius (1612–1676) not just for German linguistic thought (where the importance of his cultural-patriotic Spracharbeit and his contribution to grammatography and lexicography is undisputed), but also in… read more

McLelland, Nicola 2006 Transformationen der Rhetorik: Untersuchungen zum Wandel der Rhetoriktheorie im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. By Dietmar Till New Approaches to the Study of Later Modern English, pp. 209–216 | Review

McLelland, Nicola and Andrew R. Linn 2002 Introduction Standardization: Studies from the Germanic languages, Linn, Andrew R. and Nicola McLelland (eds.), pp. vii–xii | Miscellaneous

McLelland, Nicola 2001 Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato’s Cratylus and modern theories of language. By John E. Joseph Historiographia Linguistica 28:1/2, pp. 207–214 | Review

McLelland, Nicola 2001 Albertus (1573) and Ölinger (1574): Creating the first grammars of German Historiographia Linguistica 28:1/2, pp. 7–38 | Article

This article adapts Linn’s ‘stylistics of standardization’ concept, which Linn (1998) has used to compare Norwegian and Faroese grammarians, to look at grammaticization processes in the first two grammars of German (Albertus 1573, Ölinger 1574). While both are clearly indebted to traditional… read more