Letters as Loot : A sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch / / Gijsbert Rutten, Marijke J. Wal
| Letters as Loot : A sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch / / Gijsbert Rutten, Marijke J. Wal |
| Autore | Rutten Gijsbert |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (xiii, 426 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.44 |
| Collana | Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
Historical linguistics
Letter writing, Dutch - History - 17th century Letter writing, Dutch - History - 18th century Linguistic change - Social aspects - History Sociolinguistics - Netherlands - History LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Prelim pages -- Table of contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Letters as Loot -- Chapter 2. Sounds and signs -- Chapter 3. Epistolary formulae -- Chapter 4. Variation and change in formulaic language -- Chapter 5. Detailing the writing process -- Chapter 6. Forms of address -- Chapter 7. Clause chaining between spoken and written language -- Chapter 8. Variation and change in the relative clause -- Chapter 9. Apocope of final schwa -- Chapter 10. Clausal and local negation -- Chapter 11. Harvesting -- References -- Index |
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Norms and usage in language history, 1600-1900 : a sociolinguistic and comparative perspective / / edited by Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters, Wim Vandenbussche
| Norms and usage in language history, 1600-1900 : a sociolinguistic and comparative perspective / / edited by Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters, Wim Vandenbussche |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
| Disciplina | 418.009 |
| Collana | Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Usage - History
Linguistic change - Social aspects - History Linguistics - Historiography Sociolinguistics - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-272-6879-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600-1900; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; The interplay of language norms and usage patterns; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview of the contributions; 3. Phased standardization and diaglossia; 3.1 Target groups and nationalization; 3.2 Standard language ideology; 3.3 Sources; 3.4 Supralocalization; 3.5 Diaglossia and diglossia; References; Language norms and language use in seventeenth-century Dutch: Negation and the genitive; 1. Introduction; 2. Texts and corpora; 3. The normative tradition; 4. Case study 1: Negation
4.1 Negation in the history of Dutch4.2 Results; 5. Case study 2: Genitival constructions; 5.1 The genitive case and deflection; 5.2 Results; 6. Discussion and conclusions; Websites; References; Language norms and language use in eighteenth-century Dutch: Final n and the genitive; 1. Introduction; 2. Texts and corpora; 3. Language norms; 4. Case study 1: n-deletion; 4.1 Deletion of final n in Dutch; 4.2 Results; 5. Case study 2: Genitival constructions; 5.1 The genitive case and deflection; 5.2 Results; 6. Discussion and conclusions; Websites; References Norms and usage in nineteenth-century Southern Dutch1. Introduction; 2. Prescriptivism and explicit language norms; 2.1 North; 2.2 South; 2.2.1 Early eighteenth century; 2.2.2 Later eighteenth century; 2.2.3 United Kingdom of the Netherlands; 3. Three case studies; 4. Prescriptions and typical usage in normative works; 4.1 Long A; 4.2 Verbal endings; 4.3 E + R clusters; 4.4 Overview; 5. Usage in a corpus of early nineteenth-century manuscripts; 6. Discussion: Norms and usage; 7. Conclusion; References; Norms and usage in seventeenth-century English; 1. Introduction 1.1 Language regulation and speaker agency1.2 Vernacularization; 1.3 Accessing actual usage and targeting norms; 2. Attitudes to varieties and normative regulation; 2.1 Views on varieties; 2.2 Proposals for normative regulation; 3. Emergent norms in the seventeenth century; 3.1 Spelling; 3.2 Lexis; 3.3 Literary language; 4. Sources for the study of seventeenth-century usage; 4.1 Dictionaries and lexicons; 4.2 Contemporary grammars; 4.3 Corpora and databases; 5. Comparing norms and usage; 5.1 Spelling; 5.2 Vocabulary; 5.3 Grammar; 6. Conclusion; Appendix: Corpora and databases; References Eighteenth-century English normative grammars and their readers1. Introduction; 2. The subscribers to Postlethwaite's grammar; 3. Postlethwaite and Lowth's grammar; 4. From grammars to usage guides; 4. Conclusion; References; Nineteenth-century English; 1. Introduction; 2. Grammar writing in nineteenth-century England; 3. Schooling in nineteenth-century England; 4. Nineteenth-century language usage; 5. Concluding remarks; Corpora and databases; References; From l'usage to le bon usage and back; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Codification and prescription in seventeenth-century France 1.2 The socio-cultural context |
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Norms and usage in language history, 1600-1900 : a sociolinguistic and comparative perspective / / edited by Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters, Wim Vandenbussche
| Norms and usage in language history, 1600-1900 : a sociolinguistic and comparative perspective / / edited by Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters, Wim Vandenbussche |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
| Disciplina | 418.009 |
| Collana | Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Usage - History
Linguistic change - Social aspects - History Linguistics - Historiography Sociolinguistics - History |
| ISBN | 90-272-6879-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600-1900; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; The interplay of language norms and usage patterns; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview of the contributions; 3. Phased standardization and diaglossia; 3.1 Target groups and nationalization; 3.2 Standard language ideology; 3.3 Sources; 3.4 Supralocalization; 3.5 Diaglossia and diglossia; References; Language norms and language use in seventeenth-century Dutch: Negation and the genitive; 1. Introduction; 2. Texts and corpora; 3. The normative tradition; 4. Case study 1: Negation
4.1 Negation in the history of Dutch4.2 Results; 5. Case study 2: Genitival constructions; 5.1 The genitive case and deflection; 5.2 Results; 6. Discussion and conclusions; Websites; References; Language norms and language use in eighteenth-century Dutch: Final n and the genitive; 1. Introduction; 2. Texts and corpora; 3. Language norms; 4. Case study 1: n-deletion; 4.1 Deletion of final n in Dutch; 4.2 Results; 5. Case study 2: Genitival constructions; 5.1 The genitive case and deflection; 5.2 Results; 6. Discussion and conclusions; Websites; References Norms and usage in nineteenth-century Southern Dutch1. Introduction; 2. Prescriptivism and explicit language norms; 2.1 North; 2.2 South; 2.2.1 Early eighteenth century; 2.2.2 Later eighteenth century; 2.2.3 United Kingdom of the Netherlands; 3. Three case studies; 4. Prescriptions and typical usage in normative works; 4.1 Long A; 4.2 Verbal endings; 4.3 E + R clusters; 4.4 Overview; 5. Usage in a corpus of early nineteenth-century manuscripts; 6. Discussion: Norms and usage; 7. Conclusion; References; Norms and usage in seventeenth-century English; 1. Introduction 1.1 Language regulation and speaker agency1.2 Vernacularization; 1.3 Accessing actual usage and targeting norms; 2. Attitudes to varieties and normative regulation; 2.1 Views on varieties; 2.2 Proposals for normative regulation; 3. Emergent norms in the seventeenth century; 3.1 Spelling; 3.2 Lexis; 3.3 Literary language; 4. Sources for the study of seventeenth-century usage; 4.1 Dictionaries and lexicons; 4.2 Contemporary grammars; 4.3 Corpora and databases; 5. Comparing norms and usage; 5.1 Spelling; 5.2 Vocabulary; 5.3 Grammar; 6. Conclusion; Appendix: Corpora and databases; References Eighteenth-century English normative grammars and their readers1. Introduction; 2. The subscribers to Postlethwaite's grammar; 3. Postlethwaite and Lowth's grammar; 4. From grammars to usage guides; 4. Conclusion; References; Nineteenth-century English; 1. Introduction; 2. Grammar writing in nineteenth-century England; 3. Schooling in nineteenth-century England; 4. Nineteenth-century language usage; 5. Concluding remarks; Corpora and databases; References; From l'usage to le bon usage and back; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Codification and prescription in seventeenth-century France 1.2 The socio-cultural context |
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| Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 | ||
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Norms and usage in language history, 1600-1900 : a sociolinguistic and comparative perspective / / edited by Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters, Wim Vandenbussche
| Norms and usage in language history, 1600-1900 : a sociolinguistic and comparative perspective / / edited by Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters, Wim Vandenbussche |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
| Disciplina | 418.009 |
| Collana | Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Usage - History
Linguistic change - Social aspects - History Linguistics - Historiography Sociolinguistics - History |
| ISBN | 90-272-6879-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600-1900; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; The interplay of language norms and usage patterns; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview of the contributions; 3. Phased standardization and diaglossia; 3.1 Target groups and nationalization; 3.2 Standard language ideology; 3.3 Sources; 3.4 Supralocalization; 3.5 Diaglossia and diglossia; References; Language norms and language use in seventeenth-century Dutch: Negation and the genitive; 1. Introduction; 2. Texts and corpora; 3. The normative tradition; 4. Case study 1: Negation
4.1 Negation in the history of Dutch4.2 Results; 5. Case study 2: Genitival constructions; 5.1 The genitive case and deflection; 5.2 Results; 6. Discussion and conclusions; Websites; References; Language norms and language use in eighteenth-century Dutch: Final n and the genitive; 1. Introduction; 2. Texts and corpora; 3. Language norms; 4. Case study 1: n-deletion; 4.1 Deletion of final n in Dutch; 4.2 Results; 5. Case study 2: Genitival constructions; 5.1 The genitive case and deflection; 5.2 Results; 6. Discussion and conclusions; Websites; References Norms and usage in nineteenth-century Southern Dutch1. Introduction; 2. Prescriptivism and explicit language norms; 2.1 North; 2.2 South; 2.2.1 Early eighteenth century; 2.2.2 Later eighteenth century; 2.2.3 United Kingdom of the Netherlands; 3. Three case studies; 4. Prescriptions and typical usage in normative works; 4.1 Long A; 4.2 Verbal endings; 4.3 E + R clusters; 4.4 Overview; 5. Usage in a corpus of early nineteenth-century manuscripts; 6. Discussion: Norms and usage; 7. Conclusion; References; Norms and usage in seventeenth-century English; 1. Introduction 1.1 Language regulation and speaker agency1.2 Vernacularization; 1.3 Accessing actual usage and targeting norms; 2. Attitudes to varieties and normative regulation; 2.1 Views on varieties; 2.2 Proposals for normative regulation; 3. Emergent norms in the seventeenth century; 3.1 Spelling; 3.2 Lexis; 3.3 Literary language; 4. Sources for the study of seventeenth-century usage; 4.1 Dictionaries and lexicons; 4.2 Contemporary grammars; 4.3 Corpora and databases; 5. Comparing norms and usage; 5.1 Spelling; 5.2 Vocabulary; 5.3 Grammar; 6. Conclusion; Appendix: Corpora and databases; References Eighteenth-century English normative grammars and their readers1. Introduction; 2. The subscribers to Postlethwaite's grammar; 3. Postlethwaite and Lowth's grammar; 4. From grammars to usage guides; 4. Conclusion; References; Nineteenth-century English; 1. Introduction; 2. Grammar writing in nineteenth-century England; 3. Schooling in nineteenth-century England; 4. Nineteenth-century language usage; 5. Concluding remarks; Corpora and databases; References; From l'usage to le bon usage and back; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Codification and prescription in seventeenth-century France 1.2 The socio-cultural context |
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Touching the past [[electronic resource] ] : studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents / / edited by Marijke J. van der Wal, Gijsbert Rutten
| Touching the past [[electronic resource] ] : studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents / / edited by Marijke J. van der Wal, Gijsbert Rutten |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | vi, 279 p |
| Disciplina | 306.44 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
WalM. J. van der
RuttenGijsbert Johan <1977-> |
| Collana | Advances in historical sociolinguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
Sociolinguistics - History
Linguistic change - Social aspects - History Autobiography in literature Historical linguistics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-272-7177-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452514003321 |
| Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2013 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Touching the past [[electronic resource] ] : studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents / / edited by Marijke J. van der Wal, Gijsbert Rutten
| Touching the past [[electronic resource] ] : studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents / / edited by Marijke J. van der Wal, Gijsbert Rutten |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | vi, 279 p |
| Disciplina | 306.44 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
WalM. J. van der
RuttenGijsbert Johan <1977-> |
| Collana | Advances in historical sociolinguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
Sociolinguistics - History
Linguistic change - Social aspects - History Autobiography in literature Historical linguistics |
| ISBN | 90-272-7177-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779887203321 |
| Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2013 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Touching the past : studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents / / edited by Marijke J. van der Wal, Gijsbert Rutten
| Touching the past : studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents / / edited by Marijke J. van der Wal, Gijsbert Rutten |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | vi, 279 p |
| Disciplina | 306.44 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
WalM. J. van der
RuttenGijsbert Johan <1977-> |
| Collana | Advances in historical sociolinguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
Sociolinguistics - History
Linguistic change - Social aspects - History Autobiography in literature Historical linguistics |
| ISBN |
9789027271778
9027271771 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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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