Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments X
4. List of Contributors XI
5. Contributors XII
6. 1 Introduction 1
7. 2 Stylistic devices of Christians expressing contradiction against the Gentiles 19
8. 3 A ‘third-wave’ historical sociolinguistic approach to late Middle English correspondence: Evidence from the Stonor Letters 46
9. 4 Advice to prospectors (and others). Knowledge dissemination, power and persuasion in Late Modern English emigrants’ guides and correspondence 67
10. 5 Language policy in the long nineteenth century: Catalonia and Schleswig 81
11. 6 Authorship and gender in English historical sociolinguistic research: Samples from the Paston Letters 108
12. 7 Dialect death? The present state of the dialects of the Scottish fishing communities 143
13. 8 Orthographic regularization in Early Modern English printed books: Grapheme distribution and vowel length indication 165
14. 9 Diaglossia, individual variation and the limits of standardization: Evidence from Dutch 194
15. 10 ‘Like a pack-hors trying to copy after an antilope’: A case of eighteenth-century non-native English 219
16. 11 A mensa et thoro. On the tense relationship between literacy and the spoken word in early modern times 237
17. List of Figures 262
18. List of Tables 263
19. Index 264