1. Setting the scene, letters, standards and historical sociolinguistics Richard J. Watts 2. Assessing variability and change in early English letters Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy and Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre 3. Private letters as a source for an alternative history of Middle New High German Stephan Elspaß 4. Language in print and handwriting Tony Fairman 5. Heterogeneity vs homogeneity Marianne Hundt 6. Emerging standards in the colonies, variation and the Canadian letter writer Stefan Dollinger 7. Linguistic fingerprints of authors and scribes Alexander Bergs 8. Stylistic variation Anita Auer 9. English aristocratic letters Susan Fitzmaurice 10. Early nineteenth-century pauper letters Mikko Laitinen 11. A non-standard standard? Exploring the evidence from nineteenth-century vernacular letters and diaries Barbara Allen 12. Archaism and dialect in Irish emigrant letters Lukas Pietsch 13. Assessing heterogeneity Lucia Siebers 14. Hypercorrection and the persistence of local dialect features in writing Daniel Schreier 15. Epilogue: where next? Anita Auer, Daniel Schreier and Richard J. Watts References Index.
1. Setting the scene, letters, standards and historical sociolinguistics Richard J. Watts 2. Assessing variability and change in early English letters Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy and Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre 3. Private letters as a source for an alternative history of Middle New High German Stephan Elspaß 4. Language in print and handwriting Tony Fairman 5. Heterogeneity vs homogeneity Marianne Hundt 6. Emerging standards in the colonies, variation and the Canadian letter writer Stefan Dollinger 7. Linguistic fingerprints of authors and scribes Alexander Bergs 8. Stylistic variation Anita Auer 9. English aristocratic letters Susan Fitzmaurice 10. Early nineteenth-century pauper letters Mikko Laitinen 11. A non-standard standard? Exploring the evidence from nineteenth-century vernacular letters and diaries Barbara Allen 12. Archaism and dialect in Irish emigrant letters Lukas Pietsch 13. Assessing heterogeneity Lucia Siebers 14. Hypercorrection and the persistence of local dialect features in writing Daniel Schreier 15. Epilogue: where next? Anita Auer, Daniel Schreier and Richard J. Watts References Index.
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