Letter Writing

Bys: Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and Terttu Nevalainen

The contributions in this book discuss letter-writing from 1400 to 1800, and the material studied ranges from the late medieval Paston Letters and the correspondence between Sweden and the German Hanse to Early Modern English family letters and correspondence in natural history between England and North America in the eighteenth century. By bringing a set of corpus linguistic, discourse analytic, pragmatic and sociolinguistic approaches to bear on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027222312
• ISBN13: 9789027222312
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 160 Pages