Merchants of Innovation : : The Languages of Traders /

Merchants of Innovation : : The Languages of Traders / / ed. by Esther-Miriam Wagner, Bettina Beinhoff, Ben Outhwaite.

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Traders around the world use particular spoken argots, to guard commercial secrets or to cement their identity as members of a certain group. The written registers of traders, too, in correspondence and other commercial texts show significant differences from the language used in official, legal or...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Beinhoff, Bettina,
Berg, Ivar,
Brown, Josh,
Carnicero, José Miguel Alcolado,
Kaislaniemi, Samuli,
Kühnert, Henrike,
Nesse, Agnete,
Selbach, Rachel,
Stenroos, Merja,
Tiddeman, Megan,
Wagner, Esther-Miriam,
Wright, Laura,
HerausgeberIn:
Beinhoff, Bettina,
Outhwaite, Ben,
Wagner, Esther-Miriam ,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Studies in Language Change [SLC] , 15
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 275 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • I. Introduction
  • 1. Merchants of Innovation: the languages of traders
  • II. Literacy of traders and their agency as linguistic trendsetters
  • 2. Like the coins when currencies are combined: contextualizing the written language of fifteenth-century English merchants
  • 3. Bridges of innovation and change: the English language around the networks of the Mercery of London
  • 4. The socio-linguistics of Judaeo-Arabic mercantile writing
  • III. Code-switching, loanwords and multilingualism
  • 5. Business writing in early sixteenth-century Norway
  • 6. Kiss Me Quick: on the naming of commodities in Britain, 1650 to the First World War
  • 7. The early English East India Company as a community of practice: evidence of multilingualism
  • 8. Language choice in forming an identity: linguistic innovations by German traders in Bergen
  • 9. From the synagogue to the market square: cardinal numbers in Older Yiddish
  • IV. Mercantile linguistic communities
  • 10. Early Anglo-Italian contact: new loanword evidence from two mercantile sources, 1440–1451
  • 11. Multilingual merchants: the trade network of the 14th century Tuscan merchant Francesco di Marco Datini
  • 12. On a famous lacuna: Lingua Franca the Mediterranean trade pidgin?
  • Index

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