Esther-Miriam Wagner Ben Outhwaite Bettina Beinhoff
The majority of our evidence for language change in pre-modern times comes from the written output of scribes. The present volume deals with a variety of aspects of language change and focuses on the role of scribes. The individual articles, which treat different theoretical and empirical issues, reflect a broad cross-linguistic and cross-cultural diversity. The languages that are represented cover a broad spectrum, and the empirical data come from a wide range of sources. This book provides a wealth of new data and new perspectives on old problems, and it raises new questions about the...
The majority of our evidence for language change in pre-modern times comes from the written output of scribes. The present volume deals with a vari...
Given the increasing use of English worldwide and in intercultural communication, there is a growing interest in attitudes towards non-native speaker accents in English. Research on attitudes towards non-native English accents is therefore important because of concerns about positive and negative discrimination between people who speak with different accents. This book reveals exactly what types of accent variations trigger positive and negative attitudes towards the speaker. The author argues that certain types of variation in the pronunciation of English can have a significant effect on...
Given the increasing use of English worldwide and in intercultural communication, there is a growing interest in attitudes towards non-native speaker ...
Esther-Miriam Wagner, Bettina Beinhoff, Ben Outhwaite
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 private writing. This volume suggests a clear cross-linguistic tendency that mercantile writing displays a greater degree of language mixing, code-switching and linguistic innovations, and, by setting precedents, promote language change.
This interdisciplinary volume aims to place the...
Traders around the world use particular spoken argots, to guard commercial secrets or to cement their identity as members of a certain group. The w...
