Abstract:The authors of this chapter present the first ever analysis of the orthography
of Czech broadside ballads from the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Aligning with the previous chapter by Pleskalová and Navrátilová,
they show that the features of the language of broadside ballads in
fact do correspond with the general orthography of Czech printers of
the time, whatever their targeted class of consumer. They show that the
orthography of Czech broadside ballads is influenced by a… Show more
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