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García Vidal, Tamara

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    Contextualising Third-Wave Historical Sociolinguistics
    (Universidad de Murcia, 2023-12-27) García Vidal, Tamara
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    Patterns of stylistic variation in the use of synthetic and analytic comparative adjectives: Evidence from private letters in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century England
    (Peter Lang, 2023) García Vidal, Tamara
    This chapter aims at exploring socially based patterns of stylistic variation at the individual level through the study of synthetic and analytic mechanisms for the construction of comparative adjectives in English historical correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. To account for speakers’ sociolinguistic behaviour in interpersonal communication, I investigate intra-speaker variation in letters written by five informants from diverse social ranks when addressing recipients ascribed to different social orders. By focusing primarily on number of syllables and etymology of the adjectives, this study shows that the distribution of comparative adjectives follows addressee-based accommodative patterns when writing upwards, by showing a preference for the analytic form with long and Romance adjectives, and for the synthetic form with short and Germanic/native adjectives when writing downwards.
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    Prescriptivist attempts at a spelling reform in Early Modern English: sociolinguistic and stylistic routes and rates of adoption
    (Taylor and Francis Group, 2024-10-17) Hernández Campoy, Juan M.; García Vidal, Tamara
    Some late Renaissance scholars, like Smith (1568); Hart (1569; 1570); Bullokar (1580); Mulcaster (1582), attempted to reform English spelling to reflect the pronunciation changes resulting from the Great Vowel Shift. Their goal was to align letters and phonology by devising a more stable and predictable new system. This study explores the impact and diffusion of these spelling proposals. It examines texts from 1300 to 1700, written by authors from different socio-demographic and biological backgrounds, and across various genres, registers and text-types. The sources used as linguistic materials are the Innsbruck Corpus of Middle English Prose, an archival data source of prose pieces representing different genres from 1150 to 1500 and the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, a collection of 4,970 authored documents written from 1410 to 1681 by informants from different social ranks. This study may allow us to trace the sociolinguistic and stylistic route and rate of adoption (if any) followed by these attempts at reforming the English spelling system within processes of diffusion of linguistic innovations at the level of orthography, as well as to reconstruct the sociolinguistic contexts of language variation and change in past communities.