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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankTwentieth-CenturyEnglishStandardEnglishhasevolvedanddevelopedinmanywaysoverthepasthundredyears.Frompronunciationtovocabularytogrammar,thiscon-cisesurveyclearlydocumentstherecenthistoryofstandardEnglish.Drawingonlargeamounts
2、ofauthenticcorpusdata,itshowshowwecantrackongoingchangestothelanguage,anddemonstrateseachofthemajordevelopmentsthathavetakenplace.Aswellastakinginsightsfromavastbodyofliterature,ChristianMairpresentstheresultsofhisowncutting-edgeresearch,revealingsomeim
3、portantchangeswhichhavenotbeenpreviouslydocumented.Heconcludesbyexploringhowsocialandculturalfactors,suchastheAmericaninfluenceonBritishEnglish,haveaffectedstandardEnglishinrecenttimes.Authoritative,informative,andengaging,thisbookwillbeessentialreading
4、foranyoneinterestedinlanguagechangeinprogress-particularlythoseworkingonEnglish,andwillbewelcomedbystudents,researchers,andlanguageteachersalike.CHRISTIANMAIRisChairinEnglishLinguisticsattheUniversita¨tFreiburg,Germany,withresearchinterestsinthecorpus-b
5、aseddescrip-tionofmodernEnglishgrammar,andinthestudyofregionalvariationandongoingchangesinstandardEnglishworldwide.HeisauthorofInfinitivalclausesinEnglish:astudyofsyntaxindiscourse(CambridgeUniversityPress,1990).STUDIESINENGLISHLANGUAGEGeneraleditor:Mer
6、jaKyto¨(UppsalaUniversity)EditorialBoard:BasAarts(UniversityCollegeLondon),JohnAlgeo(UniversityofGeorgia),SusanFitzmaurice(NorthernArizonaUniversity),RichardHogg(UniversityofManchester),CharlesF.Meyer(UniversityofMassachusetts)Twentieth-CenturyEnglishST
7、UDIESINENGLISHLANGUAGETheaimofthisseriesistoprovideaframeworkfororiginalstudiesofEnglish,bothpresent-dayandpast.Allbooksarebasedsecurelyonempiricalresearch,andrepresenttheoreticalanddescriptivecontributionstoourknowledgeofnationalvarietiesofEnglish,both
8、writtenandspoken.Theseriescoversabroadrangeoftopicsandapproaches,includingsyntax,phonology,grammar,vocabulary,discourse,pragmatics,andsociolinguistics,andisaimedataninternationalreadership.AlreadypublishedinthisseriesChristianMai
