Merchants of innovation : the languages of traders. / / edited by Esther-Miriam Wagner, Bettina Beinhoff, Ben Outhwaite |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 418.0071 |
Collana | Studies in Language Change |
Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Study and teaching
Multicultural education Multilingualism - Social aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
Historical Linguistics
Language Change and Variation Merchants Registers |
ISBN |
1-5015-0354-5
1-5015-0341-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Merchants of Innovation: the languages of traders -- 2. Like the coins when currencies are combined: contextualizing the written language of fifteenth-century English merchants -- 3. Bridges of innovation and change: the English language around the networks of the Mercery of London -- 4. The socio-linguistics of Judaeo-Arabic mercantile writing -- 5. Business writing in early sixteenth-century Norway -- 6. Kiss Me Quick: on the naming of commodities in Britain, 1650 to the First World War -- 7. The early English East India Company as a community of practice: evidence of multilingualism -- 8. Language choice in forming an identity: linguistic innovations by German traders in Bergen -- 9. From the synagogue to the market square: cardinal numbers in Older Yiddish -- 10. Early Anglo-Italian contact: new loanword evidence from two mercantile sources, 1440–1451 -- 11. Multilingual merchants: the trade network of the 14th century Tuscan merchant Francesco di Marco Datini -- 12. On a famous lacuna: Lingua Franca the Mediterranean trade pidgin? -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792822703321 |
Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Merchants of innovation : the languages of traders. / / edited by Esther-Miriam Wagner, Bettina Beinhoff, Ben Outhwaite |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 418.0071 |
Collana | Studies in Language Change |
Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Study and teaching
Multicultural education Multilingualism - Social aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
Historical Linguistics
Language Change and Variation Merchants Registers |
ISBN |
1-5015-0354-5
1-5015-0341-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Merchants of Innovation: the languages of traders -- 2. Like the coins when currencies are combined: contextualizing the written language of fifteenth-century English merchants -- 3. Bridges of innovation and change: the English language around the networks of the Mercery of London -- 4. The socio-linguistics of Judaeo-Arabic mercantile writing -- 5. Business writing in early sixteenth-century Norway -- 6. Kiss Me Quick: on the naming of commodities in Britain, 1650 to the First World War -- 7. The early English East India Company as a community of practice: evidence of multilingualism -- 8. Language choice in forming an identity: linguistic innovations by German traders in Bergen -- 9. From the synagogue to the market square: cardinal numbers in Older Yiddish -- 10. Early Anglo-Italian contact: new loanword evidence from two mercantile sources, 1440–1451 -- 11. Multilingual merchants: the trade network of the 14th century Tuscan merchant Francesco di Marco Datini -- 12. On a famous lacuna: Lingua Franca the Mediterranean trade pidgin? -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820580803321 |
Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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