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The language of daily life in England (1400-1800) /

The Language of Daily Life in England (1400-1800) is an important state-of-the art account of historical sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic research. The volume contains nine studies and an introductory essay which discuss linguistic and social variation and change over four centuries. Each study t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Nurmi, Arja, Nevala, Minna, Palander-Collin, Minna, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 183.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The language of daily life in the history of English : studying how macro meets micro / Minna Palander-Collin, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi
  • Negotiating interpersonal identities in writing : code-switching practices in Charles Burney's correspondence / Päivi Pahta and Arja Nurmi
  • Patterns of interaction : self-mention and addressee inclusion in the letters of Nathaniel Bacon and his correspondents / Minna Palander-Collin
  • Referential terms and expressions in eighteenth-century letters : a case study on the Lunar men of Birmingham / Minna Nevala
  • Methodological and practical aspects of historical network analysis : a case study of the Bluestocking letters / Anni Sairio
  • Grasshoppers and blind beetles : caregiver language in early modern English correspondence / Terttu Nevalainen
  • Lifespan changes in the language of three early modern gentlemen / Helena Raumolin-Brunberg
  • Singular you was/were variation and English normative grammars in the eighteenth century / Mikko Laitinen
  • Encountering and appropriating the other : East India Company merchants and foreign terminology / Samuli Kaislaniemi
  • Everyday possessions : family and identity in the correspondence of John Paston / Teo Juvonen.