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The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800)Edited by Arja Nurmi, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 183] 2009
► pp. v–vi
Edited by Arja Nurmi, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 183] 2009
► pp. v–vi
Table of contents
Acknowledgementsvii
The language of daily life in the history of English: Studying how macro meets micro
Section 1. Variation and social relations
Negotiating interpersonal identities in writing: Code-switching practices in Charles Burney's correspondence
Patterns of interaction: Self-mention and addressee inclusion in letters of Nathaniel Bacon and his correspondents
Referential terms and expressions in eighteenth-century letters: A case study on the Lunar men of Birmingham
Section 2. Methodological considerations in the study of change
Methodological and practical aspects of historical network analysis: A case study of the Bluestocking letters
Grasshoppers and blind beetles: Caregiver language in Early Modern English correspondence
Lifespan changes in the language of three early modern gentlemen
Section 3. Sociohistorical context
Singular YOU WAS/WERE variation and English normative grammars in the eighteenth century
Encountering and appropriating the Other: East India Company merchants and foreign terminology
Everyday possessions: Family and identity in the correspondence of John Paston II
Appendix: Editions in the Corpora of Early English Correspondence
Name index
Subject index
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