TY - BOOK AU - Russi,Cinzia TI - Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics SN - 9783110488401 AV - P140 U1 - 417.7 PY - 2016/// CY - Warschau/Berlin PB - Walter de Gruyter GmbH KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5493951 ER -