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Keeping in touch : emigrant letters across the English-speaking world /
"The current volume presents a number of chapters which look at informal vernacular letters, written mostly by emigrants to the former colonies of Britain, who settled at these locations in the past few centuries, with a focus on letters from the nineteenth century. Such documents often show fe...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2019]
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| Series: | Advances in historical sociolinguistics ;
v. 10. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Mining emigrant correspondence for linguistic insights / Raymond Hickey
- The language of emigrant correspondence. Wisconsin immigrant letters: German transfer to Wisconsin English / Angela Bagwell, Samantha Litty and Mike Olson
- I hope you will excuse my bad writing : Shall vs. willin the 1830s Petworth Emigration to Canada Corpus (PECC) / Stefan Dollinger
- Singular, plural, or collective?: grammatical flexibility and the definition of identity in the correspondence of nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants / Marina Dossen
- The language of the Irish emigrant experience. Homesickness, recollections and reunions: topics and emotions in acorpus of female Irish emigrant correspondence / Emma Moreton and Chris Culy
- "I have not time to say more at present": negating lexical have in Irish English / Kevin McCafferty
- "Matt & Mrs Connor is with me now. They are only beginning to learn the work of the camp": Irish emigrants writing from Argentina / Carolina P. Amador-Moren
- Grammatical variation in nineteenth-century Irish Australian letters / Raymond Hickey
- "[S]eas may divide and oceans roll between but Friends is Friends whatever intervene". Emigrant letters in New Zealand / Dania Jovanna Bonness
- Vernacular correspondence: widening the scope. "[T]his is all [,] answer soom" African American vernacular letters from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Lucia Siebers
- Morphosyntactic features in Earlier African American English: a qualitative assessment of semi-literate letters / Alexander Kautzsch
- Memoirs from Central America: a linguistic analysis of personal recollections of West Indian laborers in the construction of the Panama Canal / Stephanie Hackert.