In:Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents
Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Gijsbert Rutten
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 1] 2013
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 17 July 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.1.toc
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Table of contents
Preface & Acknowledgements
Ego-documents in a historical-sociolinguistic perspective
A lady-in-waiting’s begging letter to her former employer (Paris, mid-sixteenth century)
Epistolary formulae and writing experience in Dutch letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
From ul to U.E.: A socio-historical study of Dutch forms of address in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century private letters
Flat adverbs and Jane Austen’s letters
Letters from Gaston B.: A prisoner’s voice during the Great War
Written documents: What they tell us about linguistic usage
The rhetoric of autobiography in the seventeenth century
“All the rest ye must lade yourself”: Deontic modality in sixteenth-century English merchant letters
Cordials and sharp satyrs: Stance and self-fashioning in eighteenth-century letters
Self-reference and ego involvement in the 1820 Settler petition as a leaking genre
Ego-documents in Lithuanian: Orthographic identities at the turn of the twentieth century
The language of slaves on the island of St Helena, South Atlantic, 1682–1724
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