nam a22 c 4500 pbns.218/367009493 nljbp 250625070929.0 cr ||||||||||| 131216s2012 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2012000159 9789027274700 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp PE1483 410 23 CFG bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe Edited by Marina Dossena and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 ©2012 1 online resource (vii, 254 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 0922-842X 218 Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction / Marina Dossena and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti -- The study of correspondence / Marina Dossena -- A historical digital archive of Portuguese letters / Rita Marquilhas -- Between linguistic creativity and formulaic restriction / Stephan Elspass -- Performing identities and interaction through epistolary formulae / Lea Laitinen and Taru Nordlund -- Fanny to William / Eleonora Chiavetta -- An atypical commercial correspondence / Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti -- Reporting the news in English and Italian diplomatic correspondence / Nicholas Brownlees -- Letters as loot / Marijke J. van der Wal, Gijsbert Rutten and Tanja Simons -- The problem of reading dialect in semiliterate letters / Robert McColl Millar -- “I will be expecting a letter from you before this reaches you” / Kevin McCafferty and Carolina P. Amador-Moreno -- Letters in mechanically-schooled language / Tony Fairman -- Teaching grammar and composition through letter writing in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England / Linda Mitchell In recent years there has been a renewed interest in correspondence both as a literary genre and as cultural practice, and several studies have appeared, mainly spanning the centuries between Early and Late Modern times. However, it is between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the roots of contemporary usage begin to evolve, thanks to the circulation of new educational materials and more widespread schooling practices. In this volume, chapters representing diverse but complementary methodological approaches discuss linguistic and discursive practices of correspondence in Late Modern Europe, in order to offer material for the comparative, cross-linguistic analyses of patterns occurring in different social contexts. The volume aims to provide a general and solid methodological structure for the study of largely untapped language material from a variety of comparable sources, and is expected to appeal to scholars and students interested in the linguistic history of epistolary writing practices, as well as to all those interested in the more recent history of European languages. Provided by publisher. Discourse studies Historical linguistics Pragmatics Dossena, Marina editor Del Lungo Camiciotti, Gabriella editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 9789027256232 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.218 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027274700