%0 eBook %A Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. %I Edinburgh University Press %D 2009 %C Edinburgh %G English %B Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. %@ 9780748625970 %@ 0748625976 %@ 9780748631308 %@ 0748631305 %T An introduction to late modern English %U http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=280009 %X Some twenty years ago it was widely believed that nothing much happened to the English language since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Recent research has shown that this is far from true, and this book offers an introduction to a period that forms the tail end of the standardisation process (codification and prescription), during which important social changes such as the Industrial Revolution are reflected in the language. Late Modern English is currently receiving a lot of scholarly attention, mainly as a result of new developments in sociohistorical linguistics and corpus linguisti.