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The Languages of Traders
Buch von Esther-Miriam Wagner (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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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' languages within a wider sociolinguistic context. Questions addressed include: What differences can be observed between mercantile registers and those of court or legal scribes? Do the traders' texts show the early emergence of features that take longer to permeate into the 'higher' varieties of the same language? Do they anticipate language change in the standard register or influence it by setting linguistic precedents? What sets traders' letters apart from private correspondence and other 'low' registers? The book will also examine bilingualism, semi-bilingualism, reasons for code-switching and the choice of particular languages over others in commercial correspondence.
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' languages within a wider sociolinguistic context. Questions addressed include: What differences can be observed between mercantile registers and those of court or legal scribes? Do the traders' texts show the early emergence of features that take longer to permeate into the 'higher' varieties of the same language? Do they anticipate language change in the standard register or influence it by setting linguistic precedents? What sets traders' letters apart from private correspondence and other 'low' registers? The book will also examine bilingualism, semi-bilingualism, reasons for code-switching and the choice of particular languages over others in commercial correspondence.
Über den Autor
Esther-Miriam Wagner, Ben Outhwaite, University of Cambridge, UK; Bettina Beinhoff, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 284
Reihe: ISSN
Inhalt: VIII
275 S.
ISBN-13: 9781501511608
ISBN-10: 1501511602
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Redaktion: Wagner, Esther-Miriam
Outhwaite, Ben
Beinhoff, Bettina
Herausgeber: Esther-Miriam Wagner/Bettina Beinhoff/Ben Outhwaite
Hersteller: De Gruyter Mouton
ISSN
Maße: 236 x 160 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Esther-Miriam Wagner (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.05.2017
Gewicht: 0,581 kg
preigu-id: 109045869
Über den Autor
Esther-Miriam Wagner, Ben Outhwaite, University of Cambridge, UK; Bettina Beinhoff, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 284
Reihe: ISSN
Inhalt: VIII
275 S.
ISBN-13: 9781501511608
ISBN-10: 1501511602
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Redaktion: Wagner, Esther-Miriam
Outhwaite, Ben
Beinhoff, Bettina
Herausgeber: Esther-Miriam Wagner/Bettina Beinhoff/Ben Outhwaite
Hersteller: De Gruyter Mouton
ISSN
Maße: 236 x 160 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Esther-Miriam Wagner (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.05.2017
Gewicht: 0,581 kg
preigu-id: 109045869
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