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Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics

Historical sociolinguistics has now established itself as a separate independent field of linguistic inquiry, and the impact of its theoretical and empirical advances are reflected in a thriving body of publications of various types. This volume adds to this flourishing array by presenting nine orig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Russi, Cinzia (Editor , Herausgeber)
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basel/Berlin/Boston De Gruyter Sciendo Migration 2016
Edición:1. Auflage
Colección:Open access historical linguistics
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Contributors
  • Contributors
  • 1 Introduction / Russi, Cinzia
  • 2 Stylistic devices of Christians expressing contradiction against the Gentiles / Alexandropoulos, Georgios
  • 3 A 'third-wave' historical sociolinguistic approach to late Middle English correspondence: Evidence from the Stonor Letters / Conde-Silvestre, J. Camilo
  • 4 Advice to prospectors (and others). Knowledge dissemination, power and persuasion in Late Modern English emigrants' guides and correspondence / Dossena, Marina
  • 5 Language policy in the long nineteenth century: Catalonia and Schleswig / Hawkey, James / Langer, Nils
  • 6 Authorship and gender in English historical sociolinguistic research: Samples from the Paston Letters / Hernández-Campoy, Juan M.
  • 7 Dialect death? The present state of the dialects of the Scottish fishing communities / McColl Millar, Robert
  • 8 Orthographic regularization in Early Modern English printed books: Grapheme distribution and vowel length indication / Rutkowska, Hanna
  • 9 Diaglossia, individual variation and the limits of standardization: Evidence from Dutch / Rutten, Gijsbert
  • 10 'Like a pack-hors trying to copy after an antilope': A case of eighteenth-century non-native English / Sairio, Anni
  • 11 A mensa et thoro. On the tense relationship between literacy and the spoken word in early modern times / Voeste, Anja
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Index