Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics.

By: Russi, CinziaMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Warschau/Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2016Copyright date: �2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783110488401Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Current Trends in Historical SociolinguisticsDDC classification: 417.7 LOC classification: P140Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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