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

• Päätekijä: Marijke J. van der Wal (auth)
• Muut tekijät: Gijsbert Rutten (auth)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2014
• Sarja: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics
• Aiheet: historical linguistics; history; Dutch; sociolinguistics
• Linkit: 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...