Sociolinguistic Approaches to Lexical Variation in English
This volume offers an in-depth and up-to-date exploration of lexical variation from sociolinguistic perspectives, addressing a notable gap in lexis-focused research within the field. Drawing on a wide array of examples from the English language, the collection showcases cutting-edge approaches to understanding how lexical variation operates across different social and linguistic contexts.
Organised into three thematic sections, the book begins with a focus on contemporary developments in dialectology. The first section not only highlights regional and social variation in lexis but also offers critical insights into the methodological innovations shaping 21st-century dialect research. The second section highlights innovative perspectives emerging from corpus linguistics, wheras the final section examines lexical variation through the lens of social meaning, including contributions from third-wave variationist sociolinguistics. Together, these chapters argue for the significance of lexical analysis in sociolinguistic inquiry – both as a window into society and as a means of uncovering mechanisms of language variation and change.
This collection will be a valuable resource for students, researchers, and scholars in language variation and change, dialectology, corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics more broadly.
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Mentoring the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Literature
This book explores the eighteenth-century concept of “mentorship” in literary works, founded on voluntary, reciprocal engagement that nurtures mutual respect, esteem, and affection. It argues that mentorship involves not just a meeting of minds but facilitates a psychological, spiritual, and emotional expansion that is essential for both participants‘ self-actualization. The book draws upon depictions of mentorship in eighteenth-century literature, which accounts of mentoring relationships between authors and of reader’s mentorship by these texts. It argues that these testify to an experience of self-development which anticipates therapeutic relationships and offers insight into the psychological dynamics at play. Although the argument is informed by concepts developed by the psychotherapeutic tradition, it makes those insights accessible to those who have not read this theoretical material, making the book accessible for readers of fiction, at a layperson, undergraduate, and postgraduate research level. Through psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic lenses, the book examines how literary mentoring in eighteenth-century relationships reflects and influences the development of self, illuminating the period’s pedagogical preoccupations and the enduring impact of mentorship on individual and cultural transformation.
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