Letters as Loot

Rutten, Gijsbert; Wal, M.J. van der

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“…First, private letters are considered as "the 'next best thing' to authentic spoken language" (Nevalainen & Raumolin-Brunberg 2012: 32) and have therefore become the prime sources used in historical-sociolinguistic research, see e.g. Nevalainen & Raumolin-Brunberg (2003) for English, Elspaß (2005) for German, and Rutten & van der Wal (2014), from which the eighteenth-century pri-…”

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“…In the case of relative adverbs and relative pronominal adverbs, d-forms such as thar and daer 'there' dominate the oldest written Dutch, though waer 'where' can already be found in the thirteenth century (van der Horst 2008: 476-477). The major change took place much later, however, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Rutten & van der Wal 2014: 289-293, cf. van der Horst & Storm 1991, though daar and daar+preposition can still be found in nineteenth-century Dutch (van der Horst 2008Horst : 1868Horst , 1899Horst -1900.…”

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Relativisation in Dutch diaries, private letters and newspapers (1770–1840)

Krogull¹,

Rutten²,

Wal³

et al. 2017

Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics

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The paper focuses on three important themes in historical sociolinguistics: (1) the emergence of national language planning in the Netherlands around 1800, (2) the influence of historical prescriptivism on usage, and (3) genre as a crucial factor in explaining variation and change. The case study deals with relativisation, particularly the neuter relative pronoun in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Dutch. Analysing both internal and external factors, we show that the definiteness of the antecedent does not explain the variation, contrary to what is assumed in the research literature. Likewise, a strong effect of language norms on usage patterns cannot be established. The crucial factor turns out to be genre.

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Relativisation in Dutch diaries, private letters and newspapers (1770–1840)

Krogull¹,

Rutten²,

Wal³

et al. 2017

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“…The development and diversification of archival data sources is allowing scholars to explore the role of new genres and text-types as adequate materials for sociolinguistic analysis: ego-documents, such as diaries, travel accounts, court records, recipes, and especially letters, are now seen as essential documents for research in this field at diastratic, diatopic and diaphasic levels (see Elspaβ 2002Elspaβ , 2012Tieken-Boon van Ostade 2005, 2006Nevala & Palander-Collin 2005;Palander-Collin, Nevala & Nurmi 2009;Palander-Collin 2010;Auer 2015;Schiegg 2016;Krogull, Rutten & van der Wal 2017;Voeste 2018;or Hernández-Campoy & García-Vidal 2018a, 2018b. Some monographs have also confirmed the relevance of these documents to reconstruct the sociolinguistic contexts of language variation and change in the past (see Dossena & Fitzmaurice 2006;Nevalainen & Tanskanen 2007;Dossena & Tieken-Boon van ostade 2008;Sairio 2009Sairio , 2017Dossena & Del lungo Camiciotti 2012;van der Wal & Rutten 2013;Rutten & van der Wal 2014;Auer, Schreier & Watts 2015).…”

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Historical sociolinguistics and authorship elucidation in medieval private written correspondence:

Espinosa

Campoy²

2021

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Corpora of historical correspondence and their social metadata offers a very useful archival source to carry out studies in Historical Sociolinguistics. However, illiteracy among female population and the subsequent use of scribes make authorship and gender constitute some of the most controversial socio-demographic issues when doing sociohistorical research. Letters might not have been autographs but rather dictated to a scribe, which can lead to the distortion of findings concerning authorship and gender-based patterns, from the perspective of sociolinguistic variation. On the other hand, Forensic Linguistics appeared as a branch of Applied Linguistics to assist the law in legal processes, where authorship elucidation is often one of the most disputed questions. In this paper we will present an overview of the main approaches to authorship attribution within Forensic Linguistics and relate them to sociohistorical data in the case of the letters by Margery Paston, putting their theorical tenets and techniques to the test of time. The data suggests that formal (spelling) features are less indicative of authorship than other morphosyntactic markers. Forensic Linguistics and Historical Sociolinguistics can mutually benefit each other, by sharing their expertise in authorship research and its application to current and historical texts in their social context

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“…At en i stedet for å ta utgangspunkt i spesielle skrivere eller spesielle sjangre kan ta utgangspunkt i et funn fra en bestemt historisk situasjon, blir illustrert av Rutten & van der Wahl (2014), der brev skrevet i løpet av krigene mellom England og Nederland fra slutten av 1600-tallet til begynnelsen av 1800-tallet blir undersøkt. Mange av brevene er skrevet av sjømennene som var om bord i kaperog krigsskipene, mens andre av brevene i materialet befant seg i postforsendelser om bord i båter som ble kapret.…”

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“…Både tyske, flamske (fra både Belgia og Nederland) og engelske språkhistorikere har hatt en tradisjon for å forske på tidlige spor av det nåvaerende standardspråket, og språkhistorie har ofte vaert fortellingen om veien frem mot standardspråket. Rutten & van der Wahl (2014:3) omtaler dette, med henvisning til Watts & Trudgill (2002), som et slags tunellsyn i språkhistorien, der kun det som har vaert relevant for kunnskap om utviklingen av det moderne standardspråket har vaert sett på som interessant. Nedenfra-perspektivet har for språkhistorikere i disse landene kunnet innebaere et frigjørende og utvidende perspektiv på språkhistorien.…”

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Historisk sosiolingvistikk

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2020

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Denne artikkelen gir en oversikt over vitenskapsdisiplinen historisk sosiolingvistikk. Hovedvekten legges på hvilken type forskningsspørsmål det er vanlig å stille i studier som kan karakteriseres som historisk sosiolingvistikk. I tillegg presenteres ulike typer data som typisk brukes i slike studier, og hvilke utfordringer tverrfaglig språkhistorieforskning byr på. Det er særlig forskning på norsk språkhistorie som omtales, men forskning på språkhistorie i andre språksamfunn dras inn, både for å vise ulikheter i forskningstradisjoner, men også for å inspirere til en utvidelse av mulige innfallsvinkler i norsk språkhistorisk forskning. Begrep som tas opp, er språkhistorie nedenfra, indre og ytre språkhistorie og det tverrfaglige dilemma. Det legges også vekt på å få frem at selv om det å arbeide sosiolingvistisk med eldre og yngre språkhistorisk materiale kan fremstå som svært forskjellig, ligger der noen grunnleggende føringer både for teori og metode innenfor historisk sosiolingvistikk som vil være gyldige uansett hvilken periode en arbeider med.

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Letters as Loot

Cited by 85 publications

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Relativisation in Dutch diaries, private letters and newspapers (1770–1840)

Relativisation in Dutch diaries, private letters and newspapers (1770–1840)

Historical sociolinguistics and authorship elucidation in medieval private written correspondence:

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