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Letters as loot : a sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-c…
The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents an in-depth study of the language of letters focussing on a unique collection of Dutch private letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which comprises letters from the lower, middle and upper …
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- 9789027269577
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- xiii, 426p. : ill.
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- 306.44 RUT l
Language planning as nation building : ideology, policy and implementation in…
The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from Finland to Spain, and from Iceland to the Habsburg Empire. Amidst these international events, the case of Dutch in the Netherlands offers a unique example. After the rise of the ideology from the 1750s onwards, the new discourse of one …
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- 9789027262769
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- x, 312p. : ill.
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- 306.449492 RUT l
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