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Letter Writing and Language Change outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis, both in theory and practice. The chapters in this volume make use of insights from all three 'Waves of Variation Studies', and many of them, either implicitly or explicitly, look at specific aspects of the language of the letter writers in an effort to discover how those writers position themselves and how they attempt, consciously or unconsciously, to construct social identities. The letters are largely from people in the lower strata of social structure, either to addressees of the same...

The 45th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on 1 February, 2014. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.
At this year's meeting, 80 papers were presented, of which 18 were submitted to the present volume. The volume contains a selection of these papers, which may be considered representative of current research in various fields of linguistics.

The 44th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 9th, 2013. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year's meeting, 83 papers were presented, of which 25 were submitted to the present volume. The volume contains a selection of these papers, which may be considered representative of current research in various fields of linguistics.

Linguistics and Literary History systematically explores the advantages of an inter-disciplinary approach within the broad area of English studies. It brings together stylistics, literary theory and diachronic linguistics in order to explore their interaction at various methodological, descriptive and interpretative levels. This unique combination makes this volume on historical stylistics an important work for international scholars and postgraduate students working on the interface between literary history and language change, both from corpus-based and qualitative perspectives. The...