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标题：Tracing Patterns of Intra-Speaker Variation in Early English Correspondence: A Change from Above in the Paston Letters
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作者：Juan M. Hernández-Campoy ; J. Camilo Conde-Silvestre ; Tamara García-Vidal 等
期刊名称：Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
印刷版ISSN：0081-6272
出版年度：2019
卷号：54
页码：287-314
DOI：10.2478/stap-2019-0014
语种：English
出版社：Adam Mickiewicz University
摘要：AbstractThe aim of this paper is to explore the impact of social and context factors on the diffusion of a linguistic change from above, namely the deployment of the spelling innovation in fifteenth-century English, and especially in some letters from the well-known Paston collection of correspondence. We particularly focus on the socio-stylistic route of this change from above, observing the sociolinguistic behaviour of some letter writers (members of the Paston family) in connection with the social-professional status of their recipients, the interpersonal relationship with them, as well as the contexts and styles of the letters. In this way, different dimensions of this change from above in progress in fifteenth-century English can be reconstructed.
关键词：KeywordsHistorical sociolinguisticssociolinguistic styleschange from abovehistory of English spellinglate Middle EnglishPaston Letters