This paper explores the question how far “letters” as one specific text type can be subdivided into smaller groups of texts (i.e. subtypes such as “requests”, “orders”, or “reports”) on the basis of socio-psychological and pragmatic dimensions and factors, including speech act and accommodation theory. This paper argues that this differentiation into socio-pragmatic subtypes actually can be made and that these subtypes materialize in significant systematic morphosyntactic variability. The idea is explored and illustrated on the basis of pronoun and relativizer variation in the late Middle English Paston Letters. In particular, it is shown how authors use their individual stylistic freedom to pursue specific communicative purposes in different types of letters.
2022. Contacto de lenguas y usos gráficos en las cartas de un scriptor semiculto mallorquín (Antonio Estada, 1789-1790). Verba: Anuario Galego de Filoloxía► pp. 1 ff.
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2019. Shakespeare and his contemporaries: Designing a genre classification scheme for Early English Books Online 1560–1640. ICAME Journal 43:1 ► pp. 59 ff.
Thomas, Jenelle
2020. Sincere or heart-felt?: Sincerity, convention, and bilingualism in French and Spanish letters. Multilingua 39:1 ► pp. 59 ff.
Voeste, Anja
2018. The self as a source. A peasant farmer’s letters from prison (1848–1852). Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 4:1 ► pp. 97 ff.
Włodarczyk, Matylda
2010. Infinitives in the 1820 Settler Letters of Denunciation: What can a Contextualised Application of Corpus-Based Results Tell us About the Expression of Persuasion?. Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 46:4
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