Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface & Acknowledgements vii
4. Ego-documents in a historical-sociolinguistic perspective 1
5. A lady-in-waiting’s begging letter to her former employer (Paris, mid-sixteenth century) 19
6. Epistolary formulae and writing experience in Dutch letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 45
7. From ul to U.E. 67
8. Flat adverbs and Jane Austen’s letters 91
9. Letters from Gaston B. 107
10. Written documents 129
11. The rhetoric of autobiography in the seventeenth century 149
12. “All the rest ye must lade yourself” 165
13. Cordials and sharp satyrs 183
14. Self-reference and ego involvement in the 1820 Settler petition as a leaking genre 201
15. Ego-documents in Lithuanian 225
16. The language of slaves on the island of St Helena, South Atlantic, 1682–1724 243
17. Index 277