Rita Marquilhas
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rita Marquilhas plays a role.
Articles
2015 The Portuguese Language Spelling Accord The Historical Sociolinguistics of Spelling, Villa, Laura and Rik Vosters (eds.), pp. 275–286 | Article
The process of adopting an official orthography for the Portuguese language was completed very late in history, only in the twentieth century, and it was independently triggered by the Brazilian Letters Academy (in 1907) and the Portuguese sciences academy (in 1911). The diplomatic negotiations… read more
2012 A historical digital archive of Portuguese letters Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 31–44 | Article
Documents from the letter genre, and private letters above all, are the best possible data for studying everyday men and women in society, their linguistic knowledge and behavior, as well as their social inscription. Although they are written matter, letters are very close to the informal tenor of… read more