Letters as loot: a sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch
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Autor: Rutten, Gijsbert
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Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgements xi
CHAPTER 1
Letters as Loot: A historical-sociolinguistic challenge 1
1. The Letters as Loot source 1
2. Letters as Loot and language history from below 2
3. Selection of periods and phenomena 5
4. Speech and writing 7
5. The variables 9
6. The autograph status of letters, corpora and presentation of results 13
7. Outlook 17
CHAPTER 2
Sounds and signs: From local to supralocal usage 19
1. Introduction 19
2. Standard languages, language standards and the degree of orality 19
3. The degree of orality in the history of Dutch 21
4. Case studies Zeeland 23
4.1 The subcorpora used 23
4.2 H-dropping in the seventeenth century: First case study 24
4.3 H-dropping in the seventeenth century: Second case study 26
4.3.1 Deletion of h 26
4.3.2 Prothesisof h 30
4.3.3 Substitution of(h) for (a) 31
4.4 H-dropping in the eighteenth century, and diachronically 32
4.5 Long e s in the seventeenth century 34
4.6 Long e s in the eighteenth century, and diachronically 41
4.7 Conclusions 44
5. Case studies North Holland and Amsterdam 46
5.1 The subcorpora used 47
5.2 Germanic sk 49
5.2.1 Seventeenth-century North Holland 50
5.2.2 Seventeenth-century Amsterdam 51
5.2.3 Eighteenth-century North Holland 52
5.2.4 Eighteenth-century Amsterdam 53
5.3 Germanic ft 54
5.3.1 Seventeenth-century North Holland 55
5.3.2 Seventeenth-century Amsterdam 56
5.3.3 Eighteenth-century North Holland 57
5.3.4 Eighteenth-century Amsterdam 58
5.4 A-like vowels in the seventeenth century 58
5.4.1 The representation of a-like vowels 58
5.4.2 The writing systems used 61
5.5 Prefix ge- in the seventeenth century 65
5.6 Long e s in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 67
5.7 Conclusions 72
6. Conclusions 73
CHAPTER 3
Epistolary formulae: Functions and text composition 75
1. Introduction 75
2. A sample letter 77
3. The subcorpora 81
4. Functions of epistolary formulae 81
Text-constitutive formulae 82
Intersubjective formulae 83
Christian-ritual formulae 83
5. Text composition 85
6. Text-constitutive formulae 86
6.1 Text-type formulae 86
6.1.1 Address 87
Prepositional phrases having the meaning to 87
The addressee s name and social role 88
The addressee s location 90
The means by which the letter is sent 92
Additional information 93
6.1.2 Date 93
Praise to God 94
The writer s location 94
The date 95
Additional information 97
6.1.3 Opening 97
Addressing the recipient 98
Greeting the recipient 100
Referring to (earlier) communication 101
6.1.4 Closing 105
6.2 Text-structural formulae 108
6.2.1 Initiating discourse 108
6.2.2 Continuing discourse 109
6.2.3 Ending discourse 111
7. Intersubjective formulae 114
7.1 Health formulae 114
7.1.1 Health statements 114
7.1.2 Health wishes 117
7.1.3 Subordinate health formulae 118
7.1.4 Health formulae in the eighteenth century 121
7.2 Greeting formulae 121
7.3 Contact formulae 123
8. Christian-ritual formulae 125
9. Conclusions 127
CHAPTER 4
Variation and change in formulaic language 129
1. Introduction 129
2. Formulaic language and writing experience 130
2.1 Previous research 130
2.2 Processing effort and writing experience 131
2.3 Writing experience and social variables 133
2.4 Summing up - hypotheses 134
3. Case studies 135
3.1 The subcorpora 136
3.2 Greeting 137
3.3 Communicating health 141
3.4 Communicating sorrow 146
3.5 Communicating God s omniscience 150
3.6 Initiating discourse 153
3.7 Continuing discourse 158
3.8 Conclusions 163
4. Variation and change as functions of writing experience 164
4.1 The social literacy boundary 164
4.2 Gender differences 167
4.3 Incremental and levelling writing experience 169
4.4 Writing experience vs. social identity and style 170
5. Conclusions and further discussion 171
chapter 5
Detailing the writing process: Formulaic language, social and professional
writers, and the influence of letter-writing manuals 173
1. Introduction 173
2. The non-autograph subcorpus 174
3. Comparing autographs and non-autographs 174
3.1 Greeting 174
3.2 Communicating health 175
3.3 Communicating sorrow 176
3.4 Communicating God s omniscience 177
3.5 Initiating discourse 177
3.6 Continuing discourse 178
3.7 Conclusion 179
4. Writing in the name of: Social or professional writers 180
5. Formulaic language, group practices and social routine 185
6. Formulae in letter-writing manuals 187
6.1 Elite manuals 188
6.2 School books 190
6.3 Jacobi and his successors 195
7. Conclusions 202
chapter 6
Forms of address 203
1. Introduction 203
2. Forms of address in the history of Dutch 204
3. Politeness as a variable 207
3.1 Private vs business 208
3.2 Within the core family 209
3.3 Thej-forms 213
3.3.1 The seventeenth century 213
3.3.2 The eighteenth century 218
3.4 An increase in negative politeness? 222
3.5 Politic behaviour and social stratification 223
4. Sociolinguistic variation and change 225
4.1 The overall diachronic picture 226
4.2 Epistolary forms of address 227
4.2.1 The seventeenth century 227
4.2.2 The eighteenth century 231
4.2.3 Social effects on the change from ul to ue 235
4.2.4 The contexts in which epistolary forms appear 236
4.3 The pronominal forms of address 239
5. Politeness - again 243
6. Conclusions 245
chapter 7
Clause chaining between spoken and written language 247
1. Introduction 247
2. The subcorpora 250
3. Clause linking in the letter corpus 251
3.1 No bleached connectives and no punctuation 252
3.2 Bleached connectives, but no punctuation 254
3.3 Bleached connectives as well as punctuation 255
3.4 Punctuation, but no bleached connectives 256
4. Grammaticalisation of clause linkages and discourse markers 257
5. The rise of punctuation 266
6. Variation and change in clause chaining 269
6.1 Discourse units 271
6.2 Sociolinguistic patterns 280
7. The interplay of punctuation and clause chaining 284
8. Conclusions 286
chapter 8
Variation and change in the relative clause 289
1. Introduction 289
2. Relativisation in the history of Dutch 289
3. Syntacticisationofthe relative clause -hypotheses 293
4. Variation and change in the relative clause - case studies 296
4.1 Extracting d s and w s - diachronic results 296
4.2 Social and gender variation 297
4.3 A change from above 302
5. Relativisation and incremental writing experience 302
6. Relativisation and formulaic language 304
6.1 Epistolary formulae 305
6.2 Constructional diffusion 313
7. Relativisation and clause integration 313
7.1 Integration of relative clauses 314
7.2 Integration and syntacticisation 318
8. Conclusions 320
chapter 9
Apocope of final schwa 323
1. Introduction 323
2. The subcorpora 325
3. A regionally diffused phonological change 326
3.1 The broad picture by time and region 326
3.2 Right context 331
3.3 Left context 335
4. North Holland, including Amsterdam 338
5. South Holland 341
6. Zeeland 344
7. Interpreting social and regional variation 347
8. Epistolary conventions 350
8.1 Formulaic language 350
8.2 Zero subjects 355
9. Conclusions 360
chapter 10
Clausal and local negation 363
1. Introduction 363
2. The subcorpora and the overall results 364
3. Regional patterns 365
4. Constructional patterns 368
5. Lexical-semantic patterns 373
5.1 The negators niet and geen 373
5.2 Type of verb 374
6. Phonological patterns 378
7. Complexity effects 380
7.1 Proximity 381
7.2 Verbal cluster complexity 383
8. Social patterns 385
9. Social patterns in Amsterdam and Zeeland 388
10. Conclusions 391
chapter 11
Harvesting: Reflection and evaluation 393
1. Harvesting: Introduction 393
2. Mapping variation and change 393
3. Explanations: Community practices and politeness theory 396
4. The writing process and different degrees of writing experience:
Connecting all the data 398
4.1 Acquiring writing skills 398
4.2 Phenomena and the explanation of writing experience 401
5. The complex nature of change 404
6. The fruits of confiscated letters 405
7. Conclusions 408
References 409
Index
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