In:Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the evolution of English
Edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 96] 2020
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 8 April 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.96.toc
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Table of contents
AcknowledgementsVII
Introduction: Corpora and the changing societyIX
Paula Rautionaho
Arja Nurmi
Juhani Klemola
Part I.Changing society
The great temptation: What diachronic corpora do and do not reveal about social change3
Martin Hilpert
Changes in society and language: Charting poverty29
Gerold Schneider
Finding evidence for a changing society: A collocational study of medical discourse in 1500–180057
Maura Ratia
Semantic neology: Challenges in matching corpus-based semantic change to real-world
change79
Antoinette Renouf
From burden to threat: A diachronic study of language ideology and migrant representation in the British
press113
Gavin Brookes
David Wright
Part II.Changing language
That’s absolutely fine: An investigation of absolutely in the spoken BNC2014143
Karin Aijmer
Two sides of the same coin? Tracking the history of the intensifiers deadly and
mortal169
Zeltia Blanco-Suárez
So-called -ingly adverbs in Late Middle and Early Modern
English199
Yoko Iyeiri
Analyzing change in the American English amplifier system in the fiction
genre223
Martin Schweinberger
The development and pragmatic function of a non-inference marker: That is not to say (that)251
J. Laurel Brinton
Changes in transitivity and reflexive uses of sit
(me/myself down) in Early and Late Modern
English277
Turo Vartiainen
Mikko Höglund
Index303
