All Stories

  1. Finding meaning in discursive concepts in Early Modern English
  2. Volatile concepts
  3. Looking for concepts in Early Modern English
  4. Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe
  5. When natives became Africans: A historical sociolinguistic study of semantic change in colonial discourse
  6. Review of van der Wal & Rutten (2013): Touching the Past: Studies in the Historical Sociolinguistics of Ego-Documents
  7. Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England. Edited by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
  8. The sociopragmatics of a lovers’ spat
  9. Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation
  10. The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English
  11. “Plethoras of witty verbiage” and “heathen Greek”
  12. Review of Taavitsainen, Melchers & Pahta (1999): Writing in Nonstandard English
  13. Some remarks on the rhetoric of historical pragmatics