LEADER 02282nam 2200349z- 450 001 9910135385603321 005 20231214133603.0 035 $a(CKB)3810000000000288 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/51603 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000000288 100 $a20202102d2014 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLetters as Loot. A sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch 210 $cJohn Benjamins Publishing Company$d2014 215 $a1 electronic resource (xiii, 426 p.) 225 1 $aAdvances in Historical Sociolinguistics 311 $a90-272-6957-2 330 $aThe study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents an in-depth study of the language of letters focussing on a unique collection of Dutch private letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which comprises letters from the lower, middle and upper ranks, written by men as well as women. The book discusses the key issues of formulaic language and the degree of orality of private letters, it questions the importance of letter-writing manuals, and reveals remarkable patterns of social, regional and gender variation in a wide range of linguistic features. Arguing for writing experience as an important factor in historical linguistics generally, the book offers numerous new perspectives on the history of Dutch. The monograph is of interest to a wide readership, ranging from scholars of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, Germanic linguistics, sociology and social history to (advanced) graduate and postgraduate students in courses on language variation and change. 610 $ahistorical linguistics 610 $ahistory 610 $aDutch 610 $asociolinguistics 700 $aMarijke J. van der Wal$4auth$01301438 702 $aGijsbert Rutten$4auth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910135385603321 996 $aLetters as Loot. A sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch$93025849 997 $aUNINA