Intra-individual Variation in Nineteenth-century Private Letters

Abstract

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Contextualising Third-Wave Historical Sociolinguistics

“…For example, social and stylistic patterns of variation have been found in the epistolary interaction of individuals, as well as self-monitoring based patterns of style-shifting, implying, presumably, that style-shifting happens along a continuum of informality versus formality, either because writers self-monitor their stylistic choices by producing more careful linguistic patterns, or in response to audience pressures (see Alexandropoulos, 2015;Auer, 2015;García-Vidal, 2023;Havinga, 2021;Hernández-Campoy, 2023;Hernández-Campoy & García-Vidal, 2018a,2018bHernández-Campoy et al, 2019;Schiegg, 2018Schiegg, , 2022Tieken-Boon van Ostade, 2005;Voeste, 2018;amongst others). Accounts of communities of practice have also been found in historical data.…”