30.1783, Books: Letter Writing and Language Change: Auer, Schreier, Watts (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 21:21:47
From: Lucy Ridgway [lridgway at cambridge.org]
Subject: Letter Writing and Language Change: Auer, Schreier, Watts (eds.)

 


Title: Letter Writing and Language Change 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/letter-writing-and-language-change?format=PB 


Editor: Anita Auer
Editor: Daniel Schreier
Editor: Richard J. Watts

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108713160 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 31.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108713160 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108713160 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 28.00


Abstract:

Letter Writing and Language Change outlines the historical sociolinguistic
value of letter analysis, both in theory and practice. The chapters in this
volume make use of insights from all three 'Waves of Variation Studies', and
many of them, either implicitly or explicitly, look at specific aspects of the
language of the letter writers in an effort to discover how those writers
position themselves and how they attempt, consciously or unconsciously, to
construct social identities. The letters are largely from people in the lower
strata of social structure, either to addressees of the same social status or
of a higher status. In this sense the question of the use of 'standard' and/or
'nonstandard' varieties of English is in the forefront of the contributors'
interest. Ultimately, the studies challenge the assumption that there is only
one 'legitimate' and homogenous form of English or of any other language.

1. Setting the scene, letters, standards and historical sociolinguistics
Richard J. Watts; 2. Assessing variability and change in early English letters
Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy and Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre; 3. Private
letters as a source for an alternative history of Middle New High German
Stephan Elspaß; 4. Language in print and handwriting Tony Fairman; 5.
Heterogeneity vs homogeneity Marianne Hundt; 6. Emerging standards in the
colonies, variation and the Canadian letter writer Stefan Dollinger; 7.
Linguistic fingerprints of authors and scribes Alexander Bergs; 8. Stylistic
variation Anita Auer; 9. English aristocratic letters Susan Fitzmaurice; 10.
Early nineteenth-century pauper letters Mikko Laitinen; 11. A non-standard
standard? Exploring the evidence from nineteenth-century vernacular letters
and diaries Barbara Allen; 12. Archaism and dialect in Irish emigrant letters
Lukas Pietsch; 13. Assessing heterogeneity Lucia Siebers; 14. Hypercorrection
and the persistence of local dialect features in writing Daniel Schreier; 15.
Epilogue: where next? Anita Auer, Daniel Schreier and Richard J. Watts;
References; Index.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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