Keeping in touch : emigrant letters across the English-speaking world /

• Other Authors: Hickey, Raymond, 1954- (επιμελητής)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2019.
• Series: Advances in historical sociolinguistics (AHS), volume 10
• Subjects: Αγγλική γλώσσα > Ποικιλία.; Αγγλική γλώσσα > Ιστορία > 19ος αιώνας.; Μετανάστες > Γλώσσα; Κοινωνιογλωσσολογία

"The current volume presents a number of chapters which look at informal vernacular letters, written mostly by emigrants to the former colonies of Britain, who settled at these locations in the past few centuries, with a focus on letters from the nineteenth century. Such documents often show fe...