31.62, Books: Keeping in Touch: Hickey (ed.)

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Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 17:07:28
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Keeping in Touch: Hickey (ed.)

 


Title: Keeping in Touch 
Subtitle: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world 
Series Title: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 10  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/ahs.10 


Editor: Raymond Hickey

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261885 Pages: 289 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261885 Pages: 289 Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204479 Pages: 289 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204479 Pages: 289 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

The current volume presents a number of chapters which look at informal
vernacular letters, written mostly by emigrants to the former colonies of
Britain, who settled at these locations in the past few centuries, with a
focus on letters from the nineteenth century. Such documents often show
features for varieties of English which do not necessarily appear in later
sources or which are not attested with the same range or in the same set of
grammatical contexts. This has to do with the vernacular nature of the
letters, i.e. they were written by speakers who had a lower level of education
and whose speech, and hence their written form of language, does not appear to
have been guided by considerations of standardness and conformity to external
norms of language. Furthermore, the writers of the emigrant letters, examined
in the current volume, were very unlikely to have known of, still less have
used, manuals of letter writing. Emigrant letters thus provide a valuable
source of data in tracing the possible development of features in varieties of
English in the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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