Leslie Arnovick
Professor Emerita
email
Leslie.Arnovick@ubc.ca
Education
University of California, BerkeleyPhD
Publications
- The English Language: A Linguistic History. Revised third edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2016. A textbook for upper-division undergraduate courses in the history of the English language, co-authored with Laurel J. Brinton.
- Written Reliquaries: The Resonance of Orality in Medieval English Texts. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2006. The book analyzes the oral performance of spoken acts recorded in Old English and Middle English texts by reconstructing their original cultural and linguistic contexts. The analysis combines methodologies from oral theory and historical pragmatics to explore curses, proverbs, promises, prayers, gibberish, and performative silence.
- Diachronic Pragmatics: Seven Case Studies in English Illoctutionary Development. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999.
- The Development of Future Constructions in English: The Pragmatics of Modal and Temporal Will and Shall in Middle English. Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, Volume 2. New York:Peter Lang Publishing, 1990.
- “Anglo-Saxon Charms,” in Siân Echard and Robert Rouse (eds.). The Encyclopedia of British Medieval Literature. Oxford: Wiley, forthcoming.
- “Bishop Challoner’s Ecumenical Revision of the Douai-Rheims Bible by Way of Richard Challoner,” co-authored with Henry Ansgar Kelly. Review of English Studies 66 (2015): 698-722.
- “Middle English: Literary Language,” in Alexander Bergs and Laurel Brinton (eds.), English Historical Linguistics: An International Handbook, Volume 1. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, 2012:551-576.
- “Pragmaticalisation and Discursization,” co-authored with Claudia Claridge in Andreas Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics, Volume 8: Historical Pragmatics. (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010):165-192.