This book draws on a range of informal letter corpora and outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis.

This volume brings together research on panel studies with the aim of providing a coherent empirical and theoretical knowledge-base for examining the impact of

This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing forma

The volume brings together contributions by scholars working in different theoretical frameworks interested in systematic explanation of language change and the

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 correspon