Merchants of Innovation : the Languages of Traders

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Título: Merchants of Innovation : the Languages of Traders / Esther-Miriam Wagner, Bettina Beinhoff, Ben Outhwaite.

Descripción física: 1 recurso electrónico (283 p.)

Tipo de contenido: Texto (visual)

Tipo de medio: electrónico

Serie: (Studies in Language Change [SLC] ; 15)

Notas: Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed May. 17, 2017).Sumario: 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.In English.Added to collection customer.56279.3 - Master record variable field(s) change: 082

Contiene: FrontmatterAcknowledgementsContentsI. Introduction1. Merchants of Innovation: the languages of tradersII. Literacy of traders and their agency as linguistic trendsetters2. Like the coins when currencies are combined: contextualizing the written language of fifteenth-century English merchants3. Bridges of innovation and change: the English language around the networks of the Mercery of London4. The socio-linguistics of Judaeo-Arabic mercantile writingIII. Code-switching, loanwords and multilingualism5. Business writing in early sixteenth-century Norway6. Kiss Me Quick: on the naming of commodities in Britain, 1650 to the First World War7. The early English East India Company as a community of practice: evidence of multilingualism8. Language choice in forming an identity: linguistic innovations by German traders in Bergen9. From the synagogue to the market square: cardinal numbers in Older YiddishIV. Mercantile linguistic communities10. Early Anglo-Italian contact: new loanword evidence from two mercantile sources, 1440-145111. Multilingual merchants: the trade network of the 14th century Tuscan merchant Francesco di Marco Datini12. On a famous lacuna: Lingua Franca the Mediterranean trade pidgin?Index.

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Materia / lugar / evento: Lenguas y relaciones internacionales

Otros autores: Beinhoff, Bettina Outhwaite, Ben Wagner, Esther-Miriam

CDU: 81:339

Números normalizados: ISBN 9781501503542ISBN 9781501503412ISBN . - ISBN (no válido)9781501511608

Tipo de publicación: Libros Libros

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