Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. The language of daily life in the history of English: Studying how macro meets micro 1
5. Section 1. Variation and social relations
6. Negotiating interpersonal identities in writing: Code-switching practices in Charles Burney's correspondence 27
7. Patterns of interaction: Self-mention and addressee inclusion in letters of Nathaniel Bacon and his correspondents 53
8. Referential terms and expressions in eighteenth-century letters: A case study on the Lunar men of Birmingham 75
9. Section 2. Methodological considerations in the study of change
10. Methodological and practical aspects of historical network analysis: A case study of the Bluestocking letters 107
11. Grasshoppers and blind beetles: Caregiver language in Early Modern English correspondence 137
12. Lifespan changes in the language of three early modern gentlemen 165
13. Section 3. Sociohistorical context
14. Singular YOU WAS/WERE variation and English normative grammars in the eighteenth century 199
15. Encountering and appropriating the Other: East India Company merchants and foreign terminology 219
16. Everyday possessions: Family and identity in the correspondence of John Paston II 253
17. Appendix: Editions in the Corpora of Early English Correspondence 279
18. Name index 303
19. Subject index 309