Book contents
- Letter Writing and Language Change
- Letter Writing and Language Change
- Letter Writing and Language Change
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Setting the scene: letters,standards and historical sociolinguistics
- Chapter 2 Assessing variabilityand change in early English letters
- Chapter 3 Private letters as a source for an alternative history of Middle New High German
- Chapter 4 Language in printandhandwriting
- Chapter 5 Heterogeneityvs. homogeneity
- Chapter 6 Emerging standards in the colonies: variation and the Canadian letterwriter
- Chapter 7 Linguistic fingerprints ofauthors and scribes
- Chapter 8 Stylisticvariation
- Chapter 9 Englisharistocratic letters
- Chapter 10 Early nineteenth-centurypauper letters
- Chapter 11 Anon-standard standard? Exploring the evidence from nineteenth-centuryvernacular letters anddiaries
- Chapter 12 Archaism and dialect in Irish emigrantletters
- Chapter 13 Assessingheterogeneity
- Chapter 14 Hypercorrection and the persistence of localdialect features in writing
- Chapter 15 Epilogue: Where next?
- References
- Person index
- Subject index
Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2015
- Letter Writing and Language Change
- Letter Writing and Language Change
- Letter Writing and Language Change
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Setting the scene: letters,standards and historical sociolinguistics
- Chapter 2 Assessing variabilityand change in early English letters
- Chapter 3 Private letters as a source for an alternative history of Middle New High German
- Chapter 4 Language in printandhandwriting
- Chapter 5 Heterogeneityvs. homogeneity
- Chapter 6 Emerging standards in the colonies: variation and the Canadian letterwriter
- Chapter 7 Linguistic fingerprints ofauthors and scribes
- Chapter 8 Stylisticvariation
- Chapter 9 Englisharistocratic letters
- Chapter 10 Early nineteenth-centurypauper letters
- Chapter 11 Anon-standard standard? Exploring the evidence from nineteenth-centuryvernacular letters anddiaries
- Chapter 12 Archaism and dialect in Irish emigrantletters
- Chapter 13 Assessingheterogeneity
- Chapter 14 Hypercorrection and the persistence of localdialect features in writing
- Chapter 15 Epilogue: Where next?
- References
- Person index
- Subject index
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- Letter Writing and Language Change , pp. xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015