Letter Writing and Language Change
- ISBN-10
- 1107018641
- ISBN-13
- 9781107018648
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-07-16
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Authors
- Richard J. Watts, Anita Auer, Daniel Schreier
Description
This book draws on a range of informal letter corpora and outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis.
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