TY  - BOOK
AU  - Auer, Anita
AU  - Schreier,Daniel
AU  - Watts,Richard J
TI  - Letter Writing and Language Change
SN  - 9781108713160
U1  - U10 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Letter Writing
KW  - Written Communication
KW  - English Language
KW  - English Letters
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Setting the scene : Letters, Standards and Historical Sociolinguistics ..........1  Assessing variability and Change in Early English Letters .................14  Private letters as a Source for an Alternative history of Middle New High German ...............35  Language in Print and Handwriting ............53  Heterogeneity vs. Homogeneity ...................72  Emerging standards in the Colonies : Variation and the Canadian letter writer ............101  Linguistic fingerprints of Authors and Scribes .................114  Stylistic Variation ..........133  English Aristocratic Letters ............156  Early nineteenth-Century pauper Letters............185  A Non-Standard ? Exploring the evidence from nineteenth-century vernacular letters and diaries ....202  Archaism and Dialect in Irish Emigrant letters ...........223  Assessing heterogeneity ........240  Hypercorrection and the persistence of Local Features in writing ...........264  Epilogue :Where Next ............277
ER  -