nam a22 c 4500 ahs.2/319015471 nljbp 250625013956.6 cr ||||||||||| 241211s2014 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2014023573 9789027269577 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P40.5.L56 306.44 23 CFF bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Rutten, Gijsbert author Letters as Loot A sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014 ©2014 1 online resource (xiii, 426 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 2214-1057 2 Includes bibliographical references and index. Preface and acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Letters as Loot -- Chapter 2. Sounds and signs -- Chapter 3. Epistolary formulae -- Chapter 4. Variation and change in formulaic language -- Chapter 5. Detailing the writing process -- Chapter 6. Forms of address -- Chapter 7. Clause chaining between spoken and written language -- Chapter 8. Variation and change in the relative clause -- Chapter 9. Apocope of final schwa -- Chapter 10. Clausal and local negation -- Chapter 11. Harvesting 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. Provided by publisher. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Germanic linguistics Historical linguistics History of linguistics Sociolinguistics and Dialectology Rutten, Gijsbert author Wal, Marijke J. van der author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014 9789027200815 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.2 Open Access https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027269577