New Trends and Methodologies in Applied English Language Research

This book has been shortlisted for an ESSE book award 2012 in English Language and Linguistics, Junior Scholars . This volume approaches the analysis of variation in English from diachronic, diatopic, and contrastive/comparative perspectives. The individual case studies, all closely interrelated, are organized into three parts or sections. Part I ( Diachronic Studies ) applies a variationist methodology to the analysis of developments in the use of the courtesy marker please , adverbs in -ly , t