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Special issue on sense of place in the history of English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2015

KAREN P. CORRIGAN  and
CHRIS MONTGOMERY
KAREN P. CORRIGAN
Affiliation:
School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Percy Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RUUKk.p.corrigan@ncl.ac.uk
CHRIS MONTGOMERY
Affiliation:
School of English, University of Sheffield, Jessop West, 1 Upper Hanover Street, Sheffield, S3 7RAUKc.montgomery@sheffield.ac.uk
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This special issue is concerned with how the multidisciplinary concept ‘sense of place’ can be applied to further our understanding of ‘place’ in the history of English. In particular, the articles collected here all relate in some way to complicated processes through which individuals and the communities they are embedded within are defined in relation to others and to their socio-cultural and spatial environments (Convery et al.2012). We have brought together eight articles focusing on specific aspects of this theme using different theoretical models that offer new insights into the history of the English language from the Old English (OE) period to the twenty-first century. The findings will also be of interest to researchers in the fields of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, English dialectology, lexicography, pragmatics, prototype theory, sociolinguistics and syntactic theory.

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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 19 , Special Issue 2: Sense of place in the history of English , July 2015 , pp. 203 - 211
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