Format:
1 Online-Ressource (440 p.)
ISBN:
9789027269577
Series Statement:
Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics Series v.2
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Letters as Loot -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Letters as Loot -- 1. The Letters as Loot source -- 2. Letters as Loot and language history 'from below' -- 3. Selection of periods and phenomena -- 4. Speech and writing -- 5. The variables -- 6. The autograph status of letters, corpora and presentation of results -- 7. Outlook -- Chapter 2. Sounds and signs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Standard languages, language standards and the degree of orality -- 3. The degree of orality in the history of Dutch -- 4. Case studies Zeeland -- 4.1 The subcorpora used -- 4.2 H-dropping in the seventeenth century: First case study -- 4.3 H-dropping in the seventeenth century: Second case study -- 4.4 H-dropping in the eighteenth century, and diachronically -- 4.5 Long e's in the seventeenth century -- 4.6 Long e's in the eighteenth century, and diachronically -- 4.7 Conclusions -- 5. Case studies North Holland and Amsterdam -- 5.1 The subcorpora used -- 5.2 Germanic sk -- 5.3 Germanic ft -- 5.4 A-like vowels in the seventeenth century -- 5.5 Prefix ge- in the seventeenth century -- 5.6 Long e's in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- 5.7 Conclusions -- 6. Conclusions -- Chapter 3. Epistolary formulae -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A sample letter -- 3. The subcorpora -- 4. Functions of epistolary formulae -- Text-constitutive formulae -- Intersubjective formulae -- Christian-ritual formulae -- 5. Text composition -- 6. Text-constitutive formulae -- 6.1 Text-type formulae -- Prepositional phrases having the meaning "to" -- The addressee's name and social role -- The addressee's location -- The means by which the letter is sent -- Additional information -- Praise to God -- The writer's location -- The date -- Additional information -- Addressing the recipient.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027200815
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789027200815
Language:
English
