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Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 21:47:24
From: Pablo Dominguez Andersen [pablo.dominguez at degruyter.com]
Subject: Merchants of Innovation: Wagner, Beinhoff, Outhwaite (eds.)

 


Title: Merchants of Innovation 
Subtitle: The Languages of Traders 
Series Title: Studies in Language Change [SLC]  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/465602?format=G 


Editor: Esther-Miriam Wagner
Editor: Bettina Beinhoff
Editor: Ben Outhwaite

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501511608 Pages: 275 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

Traders around the world use particular spoken argots, to guard commercial
secrets or to cement their identity as members of a certain group. The written
registers of traders, too, in correspondence and other commercial texts show
significant differences from the language used in official, legal or private
writing. This volume suggests a clear cross-linguistic tendency that
mercantile writing displays a greater degree of language mixing,
code-switching and linguistic innovations, and, by setting precedents, promote
language change.

This interdisciplinary volume aims to place the traders' languages within a
wider sociolinguistic context. Questions addressed include: What differences
can be observed between mercantile registers and those of court or legal
scribes? Do the traders' texts show the early emergence of features that take
longer to permeate into the 'higher' varieties of the same language? Do they
anticipate language change in the standard register or influence it by setting
linguistic precedents? What sets traders' letters apart from private
correspondence and other 'low' registers? The book will also examine
bilingualism, semi-bilingualism, reasons for code-switching and the choice of
particular languages over others in commercial correspondence.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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