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

• Главный автор: Marijke J. van der Wal (auth)
• Другие авторы: Gijsbert Rutten (auth)
• Формат: Электронный ресурс Глава книги
• Язык: английский
• Опубликовано: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2014
• Серии: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics
• Предметы: historical linguistics; history; Dutch; sociolinguistics
• Online-ссылка: 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...