Touching the Past
Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents
Some of the articles concentrate on social differences in relation to linguistic variation in the historical context. Others hone in on self-representation, writer-addressee interaction and identity work. The key issue of the relationship between speech and writing is addressed when investigating the hybridity of ego-documents, which may contain both “oral” features and elements typical of the written language.
The volume is of interest to a wide readership, ranging from scholars of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, sociology and social history to (advanced) graduate and postgraduate students in courses on language variation and change.
Table of Contents
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Preface & Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
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Ego-documents in a historical-sociolinguistic perspectiveMarijke J. van der Wal and Gijsbert Rutten | pp. 1–18
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A lady-in-waiting’s begging letter to her former employer (Paris, mid-sixteenth century)R. Anthony Lodge | pp. 19–44
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Epistolary formulae and writing experience in Dutch letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesGijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal | pp. 45–66
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From ul to U.E.: A socio-historical study of Dutch forms of address in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century private lettersJudith Nobels and Tanja Simons | pp. 67–90
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Flat adverbs and Jane Austen’s lettersIngrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade | pp. 91–106
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Letters from Gaston B.: A prisoner’s voice during the Great WarCarita Klippi | pp. 107–128
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Written documents: What they tell us about linguistic usageFrance Martineau | pp. 129–148
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The rhetoric of autobiography in the seventeenth centuryPeter Burke | pp. 149–164
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“All the rest ye must lade yourself”: Deontic modality in sixteenth-century English merchant lettersArja Nurmi | pp. 165–182
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Cordials and sharp satyrs: Stance and self-fashioning in eighteenth-century lettersAnni Sairio | pp. 183–200
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Self-reference and ego involvement in the 1820 Settler petition as a leaking genreMatylda Włodarczyk | pp. 201–224
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Ego-documents in Lithuanian: Orthographic identities at the turn of the twentieth centuryAurelija Tamošiūnaitė | pp. 225–242
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The language of slaves on the island of St Helena, South Atlantic, 1682–1724Laura Wright | pp. 243–276
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Index | pp. 277–280
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