Letters as loot : a sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch
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Letters as loot : a sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch
(Advances in historical sociolinguistics / editors, Marijke J. van der Wal, Terttu Nevalainen, v. 2)
John Benjamins, c2014
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Note
Bibliography: p. [409]-424
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents an in-depth study of the language of letters focussing on a unique collection of Dutch private letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which comprises letters from the lower, middle and upper ranks, written by men as well as women.
The book discusses the key issues of formulaic language and the degree of orality of private letters, it questions the importance of letter-writing manuals, and reveals remarkable patterns of social, regional and gender variation in a wide range of linguistic features. Arguing for writing experience as an important factor in historical linguistics generally, the book offers numerous new perspectives on the history of Dutch.
The monograph is of interest to a wide readership, ranging from scholars of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, Germanic linguistics, sociology and social history to (advanced) graduate and postgraduate students in courses on language variation and change.
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface and acknowledgements
- 2. Chapter 1. Letters as Loot: A historical-sociolinguistic challenge
- 3. Chapter 2. Sounds and signs: From local to supralocal usage
- 4. Chapter 3. Epistolary formulae: Functions and text composition
- 5. Chapter 4. Variation and change in formulaic language
- 6. Chapter 5. Detailing the writing process: Formulaic language, social and professional writers, and the influence of letter-writing manuals
- 7. Chapter 6. Forms of address
- 8. Chapter 7. Clause chaining between spoken and written language
- 9. Chapter 8. Variation and change in the relative clause
- 10. Chapter 9. Apocope of final schwa
- 11. Chapter 10. Clausal and local negation
- 12. Chapter 11. Harvesting: Reflection and evaluation
- 13. References
- 14. Index
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