
Touching the Past
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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.
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- Intro
- Preface & Acknowledgements
- Ego-documents in a historical-sociolinguistic perspective
- 1. Ego-documents
- 2. Social difference and variation in context
- 3. Representing the self
- 4. Speech and writing
- 5. Concluding
- References
- A lady-in-waiting's begging letter to her former employer (Paris, mid-sixteenth century)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Mlle de la Tousche's begging letter (Letter I)
- 3. The letter's writing system
- 3.1 Assibilation of intervocalic /r/ /z/
- 3.2 "Ouisme"
- 3.3 Lowering of [er] [ar]
- 3.4 Lowering of nasals
- 3.5 Past historic in -I
- 3.6 Endings of the third person plural
- 3.7 Learned features
- 4. Who was Mlle de la Tousche? Did she write the letter herself ?
- 4.1 Who was Mlle de la Tousche?
- 4.2 Is the letter an autograph?
- 5. The letter of "Jaquelin[e] de Reboul" (Letter II)
- 6. Contemporary attitudes to towards these vernacular variants
- 6.1 Assibilation [r] [z]
- 6.2 Ouisme
- 6.3 [er] [ar]
- 6.4 Lowering of nasals
- 6.5 Past historics in -i
- 6.6 Endings of the third person plural
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Appendix
- Translation of letter 1
- To the Queen of Scotland
- Translation of Letter 2
- Epistolary formulae and writing experience in Dutch letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The written culture and letter writing
- 2.1 Reading
- 2.2 Writing
- 3. Formulaic language and writing experience
- 4. Case study
- 4.1 The two subcorpora
- 4.2 Two formulae
- 4.3 Hypotheses
- 4.4 Results
- 5. Discussion and conclusion
- References
- From ul to U.E.
- 1. Introduction: A new view
- 2. The Letters as loot corpora
- 3. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century forms of address: A wealth of options
- 3.1 Ul and U.E.
- 3.2 Gij and u
- 3.3 The new form jij and its inflected forms
- 3.4 Earlier research on the use of forms of address in the two centuries
- 4. The seventeenth century
- 4.1 Overview
- 4.2 Social class: Lower classes vs. upper classes
- 4.3 Gender: Familiar differences
- 5. The eighteenth century: The omnipresence of U.E.
- 5.1 Overview
- 5.2 Social class: A gradual increase
- 5.3 Gender: Equality
- 6. Comparisons and conclusions
- 6.1 The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century forms of address compared
- 6.2 The present results compared to earlier research
- 6.3 Conclusion
- References
- Flat adverbs and Jane Austen's letters
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Jane Austen's letters
- 3. Flat adverbs in Jane Austen's letters
- 4. The normative grammars and actual usage
- 5. Influence from the normative grammars?
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Letters from Gaston B.
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Interest in the language of soldiers in the Great War
- 3. The Republican education system
- 3.1 The legislation of Jules Ferry
- 3.2 School grammar
- 3.3 French and dialects at school
- 4. Gaston B. as a speaker and writer
- 5. Gaston B.'s language and prescriptivism
- 5.1 Some socio-pragmatic factors
- 5.2 Handwriting and segmentation of words
- 5.3 Orthography and syntax
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Appendix 1. A sample of Gaston's letter
- Appendix 2. A trancription of the sample of Gaston's letter
- Written documents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Large historical sociolinguistics corpora
- 2.1 Metalinguistic corpora
- 2.2 Literary corpora
- 2.3 Family letters
- 3. Hybridity and egodocuments
- 3.1 Charles-André Barthe's diary
- 3.1.1 Spelling and phonological features
- 3.1.2 Morphosyntactic features
- 4. Egodocuments and linguistic communities in a minority context
- 4.1 The Detroit region: From French to English influence
- 4.2 Vernacular features and English borrowings
- 4.3 Language shift from French to English
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- The rhetoric of autobiography in the seventeenth century
- 1. Rhetoric and performance
- 2. Occasions of autobiography
- 3. Styles and plots
- 4. Grace abounding
- References
- "All the rest ye must lade yourself"*
- 1. Introduction
- 2. John Johnson and his network
- 3. Reconstructing power and social distance
- 3.1 Reconstructing relative power
- 3.2 Measuring social distance by network ties
- 4. Deontic modality
- 4.1 Modality and power
- 4.2 Modality and social distance
- 4.3 Power, social distance and modality
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Cordials and sharp satyrs
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The correspondence
- 3. Intertextuality in letters
- 4. Verbal irony in the age of politeness
- 5. Results
- 5.1 Epistolary conventions and the lexicalization of mental states
- 5.2 Intertextuality and irony
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Self-reference and ego involvement in the 1820 Settler petition as a leaking genre
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Petition as a leaking genre
- 3. Private vs. public distinction in historical correspondence
- 3.1 The Landert & Jucker (2011) model
- 3.2 1820 Settler petition within the Landert & Jucker (2001) model
- 4. Self-reference as a feature of ego involvement
- 4.1. Self-reference in historical correspondence
- 4.2 Self-reference in the structural models of the 1820 Settler petition
- 4.3 Third-person reference
- 5. 1820 Settlers: The Eriths
- 6. Jane Erith's petitions: A case study
- 6.1 The hypothesis
- 6.2 Data: Corpora and informants
- 6.3 Switches in self-reference
- 6.4 Social roles
- 6.5 I-reference: A quantitative survey
- 6.6 Summary of the case study
- 7. Conclusions
- References
- Manuscripts
- Printed material
- The language of slaves on the island of St Helena, South Atlantic, 1682-1724
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The island of St Helena, South Atlantic, and early court-cases involving slaves
- 3. Linguistic commentary
- 3.1 Some comments on Table 2
- 3.3 Summary
- 4. Master-slave conditions on the island
- 4.1 Different groups of slaves
- 4.2 On slaves' names in the St Helena consultations
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Manuscripts
- Printed material
- Databases
- Appendix
- Transcription from London, British Library, MS IOR G/32/2 and MS IOR G/32/3
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