Part I.Pragmatics and prescriptivism

Researching understatement in the history of English10

Claudia Claridge

The rise and fall of sentence-internal capitalization in English: A corpus-based approach33

Jessica Nowak

Stefan Hartmann

Gender, genre, and prescriptivism: Eighteenth-century female playwrights’ use of you was and you were60

James Hyett

Carol Percy

Part II.Political, legal and medical text types

A manipulative technique in a congressional debate: A case study from 178986

Juhani Rudanko

Paul Rickman

Is legal discourse really “outside the ravages of time”? A diachronic analysis of nominalizations in British judicial decisions101

Paula Rodríguez-Puente

Duties, offices, and conduct: The lexis of moral sense and practical ethics in late eighteenth-century medical writing129

Elisabetta Lonati

Changing styles of letter-writing? Evidence from 400 years of early English letters in a POS-tagged corpus154

Tanja Säily

Turo Vartiainen

Harri Siirtola

Terttu Nevalainen

“No criticism or remarks & pray burn it as fast as you read it”: Exploring copying practices in Mary Hamilton’s private correspondence180

Tino Oudesluijs

Filled-in petition forms and hand-drafted petitions to the Foundling
Hospital: A comparison and the influence of letter-writing manuals198

Nuria Calvo Cortés

“Quhen I am begun to write I really knou not what to say”: Inter- and intra-writer variation in the use of <quh‑> in Early Modern Scots225

Sarah van Eyndhoven

Index