Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics.

• Superior document: Historical Sociolinguistics Series ; v.5
• Author: Langer, Nils.
• TeilnehmendeR: Elspaß, Stephan.; Salmons, Joseph.; Vandenbussche, Wim.; Schiegg, Markus.; Huber, Judith.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Sociolinguistics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (576 pages)

Intra-individual variation is an emerging research field in linguistics with a rapidly growing number of studies. This volume comprises twenty-two research articles on a wide range of languages and periods, all closely connected by their focus on intra-writer variation in historical texts and by their use of empirical and corpus-based approaches.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Intra-writer variation in historical sociolinguistics: The emergence of a new research field (Markus Schiegg / Judith Huber) -- Part I Intra-writer variation in letter writing -- 2 A qualitative approach to intra-writer variation in late Babylonian letters: Two near-duplicate letters from the Eanna archive (528 BCE) (Martina Schmidl) -- 3 The use of discourse-ending formulae: Exploring intra-writer variation in Michelangelo Buonarroti's correspondence (Eleonora Serra) -- 4 Intra-writer variation and the real world of epistolary interaction in historical sociolinguistics: John Paston I's use of the orthographic variable (TH) (Juan M. Hernández-Campoy) -- 5 Patterns of stylistic variation in the use of synthetic and analytic comparative adjectives: Evidence from private letters in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century England (Tamara García-Vidal) -- 6 Patterns of linguistic variation in Late Modern English pauper petitions from Berkshire and Dorset (Anita Auer / ANNE-CHRISTINE GARDNER / Mark Iten) -- 7 Petitioning for the education of the poor: Self-corrections as stylistic choices in a Late Modern English draft letter (ANNE-CHRISTINE GARDNER ) -- 8 Intra-writer variation in the requestive behaviour of two Early Modern Scottish letter-writers (Christine Elsweiler) -- 9 Between societal constraints and linguistic self-awareness: Stylistic variation in the letters of Prince Ludwig von Anhalt-Köthen (1638-1646) (Lucia Assenzi) -- 10 Intra-writer variation in clitics in German patient letters from the nineteenth and the early twentieth century (Katharina Gunkler-Frank) -- Part II Intra-writer variation in contact and migration settings.

11 Intra-writer variation and linguistic accommodation in the letters of the Milanese merchant Giovanni da Pessano to the Datini network (1397-1402) (Joshua Brown) -- 12 Eighteenth-century Scots in correspondence during the Union Debates: An intra-writer perspective (Sarah van Eyndhoven) -- 13 Variation in verbal inflection in the private writings of the Scottish emigrant Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald (1762-1841) (Nora Dörnbrack) -- 14 Assessing Dutch-French language choice in nineteenth-century private family correspondence: From intra-writer variation to the bigger picture (Andreas Krogull / Jill Puttaert / Gijsbert Rutten) -- 15 Intra-writer variation in the multilingual Diary of Vytautas Civinskis (1887-1910) (Veronika Girininkaitė) -- 16 Picnick and Sauerkraut: German-English intra-writer variation in script and language (1867-1900) (Doris Stolberg) -- Part III From intra-writer variation to variation beyond the individual -- 17 Intra-writer variation in Early Modern Greek notary acts: Morphosyntactic patterns of accommodation (Theodore Markopoulos) -- 18 What shall we do with the 'writing' sailor?: Style-shifting and individual language use in a French navigation journal from the eighteenth century (Laura Linzmeier) -- 19 The linguistic choices of an early nineteenth-century Basque writer (Oxel Uribe-Etxebarria) -- 20 Linguistic repertoires and intra-writer variation in Old English: Hemming of Worcester (Christine Wallis) -- 21 Intra-text variation as a case of intra-writer variation: Middle English scribal behaviours, with a focus on the spelling variation of woman in MS Pepys 2125 (Yoko Iyeiri) -- 22 Intra-writer variation in Old High German and Old Swedish: The impact of social role relationship on constructing instructions (Phil Beier / Gohar Schnelle / Silke Unverzagt).

23 On the indexical meaning of literary style shifting: The case of word order variation in the sixteenth-century Welsh Bible translations (Oliver Currie) -- Notes on contributors -- Index -- Series Index.