Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Warschau/Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Stylistic devices of Christians expressingcontradiction against the Gentiles
- 3 A 'third-wave' historical sociolinguistic approachto late Middle English correspondence: Evidencefrom the Stonor Letters
- 4 Advice to prospectors (and others). Knowledgedissemination, power and persuasion in Late ModernEnglish emigrants' guides and correspondence
- 5 Language policy in the long nineteenth century:Catalonia and Schleswig
- 6 Authorship and gender in English historicalsociolinguistic research: Samples from the PastonLetters
- 7 Dialect death? The present state of the dialects ofthe Scottish fishing communities
- 8 Orthographic regularization in Early ModernEnglish printed books: Grapheme distribution andvowel length indication
- 9 Diaglossia, individual variation and the limits ofstandardization: Evidence from Dutch
- 10 'Like a pack-hors trying to copy after an antilope':A case of eighteenth-century non-native English
- 11 A mensa et thoro. On the tense relationshipbetween literacy and the spoken word in earlymodern times.