Marijke J. van der Wal

List of John Benjamins publications for which Marijke J. van der Wal plays a role.

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Subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | History of linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents

Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Gijsbert Rutten

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 1] 2013. vii, 279 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Historical linguistics | History of linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
In this paper, I intend to analyze, from a historical sociolinguistic perspective, the characteristics of Dutch letters written by economic migrants in the late eighteenth century. These letters, which are part of the Leiden Letters as Loot corpora, were confiscated by the English during the… read more
Krogull, Andreas, Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal 2017 Relativisation in Dutch diaries, private letters and newspapers (1770–1840): A genre-specific national language?Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics, Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 157–186 | Chapter
The paper focuses on three important themes in historical sociolinguistics: (1) the emergence of national language planning in the Netherlands around 1800, (2) the influence of historical prescriptivism on usage, and (3) genre as a crucial factor in explaining variation and change. The case study… read more
In this paper, we discuss the recent discovery of four letters written in 1783, one of which is written fully in Papiamentu, the other three comprising Papiamentu fragments. The data in these constitute one of the earliest written attestations of Papiamentu. We first provide a brief overview of the… read more
Rutten, Gijsbert and Marijke J. van der Wal 2013 Epistolary formulae and writing experience in Dutch letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesTouching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents, Wal, Marijke J. van der and Gijsbert Rutten (eds.), pp. 45–66 | Article
The paper discusses epistolary formulae and writing experience in Dutch private letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Reviewing research into the history of reading and writing skills in Early Modern Europe, we argue that writing experience varied in the language community across… read more
Wal, Marijke J. van der and Gijsbert Rutten 2013 Ego-documents in a historical-sociolinguistic perspectiveTouching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents, Wal, Marijke J. van der and Gijsbert Rutten (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
Wray (2002) distinguishes three main functions of formulaic language relating to processing, interaction and discourse marking. In this paper, we show that Wray’s analysis of the functions of formulaic language also applies to historical letter-writing in a corpus of seventeenth- and… read more
Wal, Marijke J. van der, Gijsbert Rutten and Tanja Simons 2012 Letters as loot: Confiscated Letters filling major gaps in the History of DutchLetter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 139–162 | Article
In this contribution, we will introduce the recently rediscovered collection of Dutch documents from the second half of the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, comprising over 38,000 letters, both commercial and private ones. The socio-historical linguistic value of these private… read more
In historical sociolinguistics, it is often assumed that ego-documents such as private letters represent the spoken language of the past as closely as possible. In this paper, we will try to determine the degree of orality of seventeenth-century Dutch private letters: the degree to which the… read more
Wal, Marijke J. van der 1999 Interchange or influence: Grotius' early linguistic ideasHistory of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 143–152 | Chapter