All Stories

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