LEADER 05601nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910789935103321 005 20230126205113.0 010 $a1-280-49753-X 010 $a9786613592767 010 $a90-272-7470-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000174244 035 $a(EBL)882554 035 $a(OCoLC)784885987 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000623088 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12291092 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000623088 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10647943 035 $a(PQKB)10208350 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC882554 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL882554 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10546494 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL359276 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000174244 100 $a20120109d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLetter writing in late modern Europe$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Marina Dossena, Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cJohn Benjamins Pub. Co.$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (262 p.) 225 1 $aPragmatics & beyond new series,$x0922-842X ; ;$vv. 218 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-272-5623-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLetter Writing in Late Modern Europe; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Reading and re-reading correspondence: The project underpinning this volume; 2. Features of epistolary discourse as key for a cohesive approach; 3. The contributions in this volume: An overview; References; The study of correspondence: theoretical and methodological issues; 1. Introduction; 2. The study of correspondence: challenges and opportunities; 2.1 Source processing; 2.2 Terminology; 2.3 The material world of the text; 2.4 Focus on language 327 $a3. Concluding remarksReferences; A historical digital archive of Portuguese letters; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Epistolary sources; 2. The CARDS corpus; 3. Analysing the CARDS corpus; References; Between linguistic creativity and formulaic restriction; 1. Research questions; 2. Corpus and socio-communicative frame of nineteenth-century emigrant letters (in Germany and elsewhere); 3. Topics and dominating textual functions; 4. Formulae and formulaic writing; 4.1 Formulae constituting texts and text types; 4.2 Context-sensitive formulaic language 327 $a5. Letter-writing traditions and the sources of formulae6. A note on grammatical analysis and the role of formulaic language; 7. Final note; References; Performing Identities and Interaction through Epistolary Formulae; 1. Introduction; 2. Background of writing in finnish; 3. Formulae and their models in letter writing; 4. Person marking and group style; 5. Educated writers and audience design; 6. Conclusions; References; Appendix; Karvijalta maaliskuun10 p 1890; Hartaasti Lempiva? Miehenin F Oskar H.; Fanny to William; 1. Introduction; 2. Discursive practice in Fanny's letters 327 $a3. Choice of topics in Fanny's letters4. Concluding remarks; References; An atypical commercial correspondence: negotiating artefacts and status; 1. Introduction; 2. Corpus and methods; 3. Analysis; 4. Concluding remarks; References; Reporting the news in English and Italian diplomatic correspondence; 1. Introduction; 2. Blackwell's correspondence to the secretary of state; 3. Francesco terriesi's correspondence to the secretary of state; 4. Conclusions; References; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Letters as Loot; 1. Tracing linguistic variation; 2. Confiscated letters in times of war 327 $a3. The linguistic perspective4. The letters as loot-corpus; 5. Writing experience in the last decades of the eighteenth century; 6. H-dropping in letters to and from zeeland; 7. N-deletion in letters from three female scribes; 8. Variation in the use of epistolary formulae; 9. Conclusions; References; The problem of reading dialect in semiliterate letters; 1. Introduction; 2. Early nineteenth-century Lancashire; 2.1 Industrialisation; 2.2 Evangelicalism; 2.3 Literacy and the early-nineteenth-century working classes; 3. The corpus; 4. Evidence for linguistic variation and change 327 $a4.1 Phonological 330 $aIn recent years there has been a renewed interest in correspondence both as a literary genre and as cultural practice, and several studies have appeared, mainly spanning the centuries between Early and Late Modern times. However, it is between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the roots of contemporary usage begin to evolve, thanks to the circulation of new educational materials and more widespread schooling practices. 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