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Merchants of Innovation: The Languages of Traders (Studies in Language Change [SLC], 15) - Hardcover

Book 6 of 8: Studies in Language Change [SLC]

Wagner, Esther-Miriam; Beinhoff, Bettina; Outhwaite, Ben

 
9781501511608: Merchants of Innovation: The Languages of Traders (Studies in Language Change [SLC], 15)

Synopsis

Traders around the world use particular spoken argots. The written registers of traders, too, in their correspondence and commercial texts show significant differences from the language used in official or legal writing. This volume suggests a clear cross-linguistic tendency that mercantile writing displays a greater degree of language mixing, code-switching and linguistic innovation, and, by setting such precedents, promote language change.

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About the Author

Esther-Miriam Wagner, Ben Outhwaite, University of Cambridge,UK; Bettina Beinhoff, Anglia Ruskin University,UK

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