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Peter Lang’s series Linguistic Insights

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Ingrid Tieken

The publisher Peter Lang just distributed a catalogue with an overview of their impressive series called Linguistic Insights, Studies in language and communication, edited by Maurizio Gotti from the University of Bergamo. The series contains several titles that are relevant … Continue reading →

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Horace Walpole’s letters online

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Ingrid Tieken

Horace Walpole was an inveterate letter writer, and his correspondence is probably the largest collection of letters that is available for analysis, linguistic and otherwise. Froukje Henstra is writing a PhD thesis on the language of the letters. A short … Continue reading →

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Napoleon writing in English

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Ingrid Tieken

This summer, a letter from Napoleon was auctioned, written in 1816 and addressed to his teacher. It was meant as an exercise, to practice his English. The article in NRC-Next which announced the news, suggests that he still had a lot to … Continue reading →

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MA course on letters at Leiden

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Ingrid Tieken

Next semester, an MA course will be taught at the University of Leiden called Letters as Sociohistorical-linguistic documents: Sociolinguists want to get access to informal spoken language – an impossible aim for the historical sociolinguist. In this course we will … Continue reading →

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