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Publication details [#57800]

Gillen, Julia. 2013. Writing Edwardian postcards. Journal of Sociolinguistics 17 (4) : 488–521.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell

Annotation

This paper combines an analysis of the brief writing, writtenness and multimodality of British Edwardian picture postcards, with historical research on public records. With several supplies a day, via an uncostly communications channel, it could be compared to the synchronicity of modern digital communication.