Marijke J. van der Wal
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marijke J. van der Wal is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2214-1057
Titles
Letters as Loot: A sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch
Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal
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… read more
Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents
Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Gijsbert Rutten
The study of ego-documents figures as a prominent theme in cutting-edge research in the Humanities. Focusing on private letters, diaries and autobiography, this volume covers a wide range of different languages and historical periods, from the sixteenth century to World War I. The volume stands out… read more[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 1] 2013. vii, 279 pp.
2026 Forms of address as politic behaviour in seventeenth-century Dutch private and business letters Journal of Historical Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
Various characteristics of historical letters, such as formulaic language and forms of address, have been analysed from a politeness perspective (e.g., Bijkerk [2004] and Tiisala [2004]) and sometimes also explicitly from a sociopragmatic perspective (Nevala 2004a). In Rutten and van der Wal… read more
2024 Non-native communication in eighteenth-century maritime circles: Dutch letters written by economic migrants Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell, Hendriks, Jennifer and B. Richard Page (eds.), pp. 225–257 | Chapter
In this paper, I intend to analyze, from a historical sociolinguistic perspective, the characteristics of Dutch letters written by economic migrants in the late eighteenth century. These letters, which are part of the Leiden Letters as Loot corpora, were confiscated by the English during the… read more
2017 Relativisation in Dutch diaries, private letters and newspapers (1770–1840): A genre-specific national language? Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics, Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 157–186 | Chapter
The paper focuses on three important themes in historical sociolinguistics: (1) the emergence of national language planning in the Netherlands around 1800, (2) the influence of historical prescriptivism on usage, and (3) genre as a crucial factor in explaining variation and change. The case study… read more
2015 The discovery, nature, and implications of a Papiamentu text fragment from 1783 Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 30:1, pp. 44–62 | Article
In this paper, we discuss the recent discovery of four letters written in 1783, one of which is written fully in Papiamentu, the other three comprising Papiamentu fragments. The data in these constitute one of the earliest written attestations of Papiamentu. We first provide a brief overview of the… read more
2013 Epistolary formulae and writing experience in Dutch letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents, Wal, Marijke J. van der and Gijsbert Rutten (eds.), pp. 45–66 | Article
The paper discusses epistolary formulae and writing experience in Dutch private letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Reviewing research into the history of reading and writing skills in Early Modern Europe, we argue that writing experience varied in the language community across… read more
2013 Ego-documents in a historical-sociolinguistic perspective Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents, Wal, Marijke J. van der and Gijsbert Rutten (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2012 Functions of epistolary formulae in Dutch letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Journal of Historical Pragmatics 13:2, pp. 173–201 | Article
Wray (2002) distinguishes three main functions of formulaic language relating to processing, interaction and discourse marking. In this paper, we show that Wray’s analysis of the functions of formulaic language also applies to historical letter-writing in a corpus of seventeenth- and… read more
2012 Letters as loot: Confiscated Letters filling major gaps in the History of Dutch Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 139–162 | Article
In this contribution, we will introduce the recently rediscovered collection of Dutch documents from the second half of the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, comprising over 38,000 letters, both commercial and private ones. The socio-historical linguistic value of these private… read more
2011 Local dialects, supralocal writing systems: The degree of orality of Dutch private letters from the seventeenth century Written Language & Literacy 14:2, pp. 251–274 | Article
In historical sociolinguistics, it is often assumed that ego-documents such as private letters represent the spoken language of the past as closely as possible. In this paper, we will try to determine the degree of orality of seventeenth-century Dutch private letters: the degree to which the… read more
1999 Interchange or influence: Grotius' early linguistic ideas History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 143–152 | Chapter
1992 Theory and Description in the Dutch Grammatical Tradition: The Case of the Passive Diversions of Galway: Papers on the history of linguistics from ICHoLS V, Ahlqvist, Anders (ed.), pp. 191–202 | Article