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Publication details [#45838]
Elspass, Stephan. 2007. 'Everyday language' in emigrant letters and its implications for language historiography – the German case. Multilingua 26 (2-3) : 151–165. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper argues that the full impact of the 19th century writing spread among the lower social classes on language variation and change has not yet been acknowledged and it proposes to employ private German emigrant letters as a starting-point for an alternative approach to language historiography 'from below'.