Letter Writing and Language Change

Letter Writing and Language Change

Author: Anita Auer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-07-16

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1139992031

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Letter Writing and Language Change outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis, both in theory and practice. The chapters in this volume make use of insights from all three 'Waves of Variation Studies', and many of them, either implicitly or explicitly, look at specific aspects of the language of the letter writers in an effort to discover how those writers position themselves and how they attempt, consciously or unconsciously, to construct social identities. The letters are largely from people in the lower strata of social structure, either to addressees of the same social status or of a higher status. In this sense the question of the use of 'standard' and/or 'nonstandard' varieties of English is in the forefront of the contributors' interest. Ultimately, the studies challenge the assumption that there is only one 'legitimate' and homogenous form of English or of any other language.


Sincerely, YOU

Sincerely, YOU

Author: Savannah Maddison

Publisher: Rodale Kids

Published: 2019-11-19

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1635653568

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A letter can brighten a day, change a life, even unite the world--and so can you! Have you ever missed a friend who lives far away and wished you could bring them back home? Do you know someone who could use a smile and have just the right story to brighten their day? Maybe you have a great idea to make your school better for everyone but don't know how to share it. With a letter, you can connect with friends and feel heard. Your stories, art, music, and ideas can travel near and far to make a difference! Packed with tips on how to conquer writer's block, find your own creativity, and connect with your friends, family, and community, this book will inspire you--and help you inspire the world around you!


Letter Writing and Language Change

Letter Writing and Language Change

Author: Anita Auer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-07-16

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1107018641

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This book draws on a range of informal letter corpora and outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis.


Letter Writing as a Social Practice

Letter Writing as a Social Practice

Author: David Barton

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2000-04-15

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9027298661

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This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in a wide variety of forms in most domains of life. More broadly, the importance of letter writing can be seen in that the phenomenon has been widespread historically, being one of earliest forms of writing, and a wide range of contemporary genres have their roots in letters. The writing of a letter is embedded in a particular social situation, and like all other types of literacy objects and events, the activity gains its meaning and significance from being situated in cultural beliefs, values, and practices. This book brings together anthropologists, historians, educators and other social scientists, providing a range of case studies that explore aspects of the socially situated nature of letter writing.


Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan

Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan

Author: Karen V. Beaman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-24

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0429638523

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This volume brings together research on panel studies with the aim of providing a coherent empirical and theoretical knowledge-base for examining the impact of maturation and lifespan-specific effects on linguistic malleability in the post-adolescent speaker. Building on the work of Wagner and Buchstaller (2018), the present collection offers a critical examination of the theoretical implications of panel research across a range of geographic regions and time periods. The volume seeks to offer a way forward in the debates circling about the phenomenon of later-life language change, drawing on contributions from a variety of linguistic disciplines to examine critical topics such as the effect of linguistic architecture, the roles of mobility and identity construction, and the impact of frequency effects. Taken together, this edited collection both informs and pushes forward key questions on the nature of lifespan change, making this key reading for students and researchers in cognitive linguistics, historical linguistics, dialectology, and variationist sociolinguistics.


Letter Writing

Letter Writing

Author: Terttu Nevalainen

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9789027222312

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The contributions in this book discuss letter-writing from 1400 to 1800, and the material studied ranges from the late medieval Paston Letters and the correspondence between Sweden and the German Hanse to Early Modern English family letters and correspondence in natural history between England and North America in the eighteenth century. By bringing a set of corpus linguistic, discourse analytic, pragmatic and sociolinguistic approaches to bear on historical letter-writing activity, the articles both extend and complement the traditional letter-writing research in the history of European languages, which approaches the topic from a largely rhetorical perspective. The articles in this book were first published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5:2 (2004), share a contextualised view of letters: whether approached from the perspective of language contact, social and discursive practices, intertextuality, audience design or linguistic politeness, letters are analysed as part of their specific familial, business or scientific network. Writing letters thus emerges as highly context-sensitive social interaction.


Studying Language Change in the 21st Century

Studying Language Change in the 21st Century

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-08-29

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 9004510575

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The volume brings together contributions by scholars working in different theoretical frameworks interested in systematic explanation of language change and the interrelation between current linguistic theories and modern analytical tools and methodology. Τhe integrative basis of all work is the special focus on phenomena at the interface of semantics and syntax and the implications of corpus-based, quantitative analyses for researching diachrony.


Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change

Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change

Author: Richard J. Whitt

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 9027263507

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This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the intersecting fields of corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and genre-based studies of language usage. Papers in this collection are devoted to presenting relevant methods pertinent to corpus-based studies of the connection between genre and language change, linguistic changes that occur in particular genres, and specific diachronic phenomena that are influenced by genre factors to greater and lesser degrees. Data are drawn from a number of languages, and the scope of the studies presented here is both short- and long-term, covering cases of recent change as well as more long-term alterations.


Scribes as Agents of Language Change

Scribes as Agents of Language Change

Author: Esther-Miriam Wagner

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-03-22

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1614510547

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The majority of our evidence for language change in pre-modern times comes from the written output of scribes. The present volume deals with a variety of aspects of language change and focuses on the role of scribes. The individual articles, which treat different theoretical and empirical issues, reflect a broad cross-linguistic and cross-cultural diversity. The languages that are represented cover a broad spectrum, and the empirical data come from a wide range of sources. This book provides a wealth of new data and new perspectives on old problems, and it raises new questions about the actual mechanisms of language change.