Letters as Loot. A sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch

• मुख्य लेखक: Marijke J. van der Wal (auth)
• अन्य लेखक: Gijsbert Rutten (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2014
• श्रृंखला: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics
• विषय: historical linguistics; history; Dutch; sociolinguistics
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents an in-depth study of the language of letters focussing on a unique collection of Dutch private letters from th...