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• Title:
  Tracing Patterns of Intra-Speaker Variation in Early English Correspondence: A Change from Above in the Paston Letters
• Creator:
  Hernández-Campoy, Juan M.;
  Conde-Silvestre, J. Camilo;
  García-Vidal, Tamara
• Description:
  The aim of this paper is to explore the impact of social and context factors on the diffusion of a linguistic change from above, namely the deployment of the spelling innovation <th> in fifteenth-century English, and especially in some letters from the well-known Paston collection of correspondence. We particularly focus on the socio-stylistic route of this change from above, observing the sociolinguistic behaviour of some letter writers (members of the Paston family) in connection with the social-professional status of their recipients, the interpersonal relationship with them, as well as the contexts and styles of the letters. In this way, different dimensions of this change from above in progress in fifteenth-century English can be reconstructed.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2019 Juan M. Hernández-Campoy et al.
• Date:
  2019.12.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Peer-reviewed articles
• Language:
  English;
  eng
• Source:
  Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Vol. 54 No. s1 (2019): Special issue on Change from above in the history of English. Edited by Nikolaos Lavidas; 287-314;
  Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Tom 54 Nr s1 (2019): Special issue on Change from above in the history of English. Edited by Nikolaos Lavidas; 287-314;
  2082-5102;
  0081-6272
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2019-0014/28975
• Subject:
  Historical sociolinguistics;
  sociolinguistic styles;
  change from above;
  history of English spelling;
  late Middle English;
  Paston Letters
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2019-0014
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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  seek permission
• Type:
  other