Merchants of Innovation : the Languages of Traders /

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Traders around the world use particular spoken argots, to guard commercial secrets or to cement their identity as members of a certain group. The written registers of traders, too, in correspondence and other commercial texts show significant differences from the language used in official, legal or...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Beinhoff, Bettina, Outhwaite, Ben, Wagner, Esther-Miriam
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2017]
Colección:Studies in Language Change SLC ; 15.
Temas:
Language and international relations > History > Congresses.
Langue et relations internationales > Histoire > Congrès.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Language and international relations
(Produktform)Electronic book text
(Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft
(BISAC Subject Heading)LAN009000
Historical Linguistics; Language Change and Variation; Merchants; Registers
(VLB-WN)9560
Registers
Merchants
Historical Linguistics
(Produktrabattgruppe)PR: rabattbeschränkt/Bibliothekswerke
Language Change and Variation
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • I. Introduction
  • 1. Merchants of Innovation: the languages of traders
  • II. Literacy of traders and their agency as linguistic trendsetters
  • 2. Like the coins when currencies are combined: contextualizing the written language of fifteenth-century English merchants
  • 3. Bridges of innovation and change: the English language around the networks of the Mercery of London
  • 4. The socio-linguistics of Judaeo-Arabic mercantile writing
  • III. Code-switching, loanwords and multilingualism
  • 5. Business writing in early sixteenth-century Norway
  • 6. Kiss Me Quick: on the naming of commodities in Britain, 1650 to the First World War
  • 7. The early English East India Company as a community of practice: evidence of multilingualism
  • 8. Language choice in forming an identity: linguistic innovations by German traders in Bergen
  • 9. From the synagogue to the market square: cardinal numbers in Older Yiddish
  • IV. Mercantile linguistic communities
  • 10. Early Anglo-Italian contact: new loanword evidence from two mercantile sources, 1440-1451
  • 11. Multilingual merchants: the trade network of the 14th century Tuscan merchant Francesco di Marco Datini
  • 12. On a famous lacuna: Lingua Franca the Mediterranean trade pidgin?
  • Index.

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