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Merchants of innovation : the languages of traders. / / edited by Esther-Miriam Wagner, Bettina Beinhoff, Ben Outhwaite
| 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
| 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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Scribes as agents of language change [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Esther-Miriam Wagner, Ben Outhwaite, Bettina Beinhoff
| Scribes as agents of language change [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Esther-Miriam Wagner, Ben Outhwaite, Bettina Beinhoff |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston ; ; Berlin, : De Gruyter Mouton, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Disciplina | 417/.7 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
WagnerEsther-Miriam
OuthwaiteBen BeinhoffBettina |
| Collana | Studies in language change |
| Soggetto topico |
Linguistic change
Scribes |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Historical Linguistics
Language Variation and Change Registers Scribes Sociolinguistics |
| ISBN | 1-61451-054-7 |
| Classificazione | ES 425 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. From spoken vernacular to written form -- pt. III. Standardisation versus regionalisation and de-standardisation -- pt. IV. Idiosyncracy, scribal standards and registers. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779869703321 |
| Boston ; ; Berlin, : De Gruyter Mouton, c2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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