Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics.
Russi, Cinzia.
Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (280 pages)
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.
9783110488401
Electronic books.
P140
417.7
Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (280 pages)
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.
9783110488401
Electronic books.
P140
417.7