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Variation and change in pronominal address in 19th and early 20th-century German private letters. 19世纪和20世纪初德国私人信件中代词称谓的变化与变化。

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Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics Pub Date : 2025-07-31 eCollection Date: 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jhsl-2023-0036

Markus Schiegg, Stephan Elspaß

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Orality and overtness: effects on Spanish subject use. 口语和显性：对西班牙语主语使用的影响。

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Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics Pub Date : 2025-07-31 eCollection Date: 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jhsl-2024-0017

Gemma McCarley

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Anna D. Havinga & Bettina Lindner-Bornemann: Deutscher Sprachgebrauch im 18. Jahrhundert: Sprachmentalität, Sprachwirklichkeit, Sprachreichtum (Germanistische Bibliothek 71) 安娜d哈文加和贝蒂娜·林德曼:18世纪德语通用语言一百年前的语言学思想、语言现实、语言富于德语(日耳曼语录图书馆)

Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jhsl-2022-0014

Markus Schiegg

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Megumi Sato: Sprachvariation und Sprachwandel im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Untersuchungen zur Kasusrektion der Präpositionen wegen, statt, während und trotz Megumi Sato: 18世纪的语言变化和变化。19 .世纪.…进行有关介词感染者的探索，在过程和过程中

Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jhsl-2022-0045

Konstantin Niehaus

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Kai Witzlack-Makarevich: Sprachpurismus im Polnischen. Ausrichtung, Diskurs, Metaphorik, Motive und Verlauf. Von den Teilungen Polens bis zur Gegenwart 卡维勒·莫维奇波兰语的语言崇拜定位，话语，隐喻，动机和道路从波兰到现在的分裂

Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jhsl-2022-0011

Artur Dariusz Kubacki

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Locating the ‘Age of Prescriptivism’ in Late Modern periodical reviews: a corpus-assisted discourse analytic approach 近代期刊评论的“规定主义时代”定位:一个语料库辅助的话语分析方法

Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jhsl-2022-0035

Beth Malory

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Out of the mouths of babes: children and the formation of the Río de la Plata Spanish address system 从婴儿的口中:孩子们形成了Río德拉普拉塔西班牙语地址系统

Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jhsl-2022-0017

María Irene Moyna, Israel Sanz-Sánchez

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‘The seas was like mountains’: intra-writer variation and social mobility in Irish emigrant letters “海如山”:爱尔兰移民书信中的作家内部差异和社会流动性

Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jhsl-2022-0042

Nancy E. Ávila-Ledesma, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno

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Frontmatter 头版头条

Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jhsl-2023-frontmatter2

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Olga Timofeeva: Sociolinguistic variation in Old English: Records of communities of people (Advances in historical sociolinguistics 13) 奥尔加·提莫费耶娃:古英语的社会语言学变异:人们社区的记录(历史社会语言学进展13)

Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1515/jhsl-2022-0026

Christine Wallis

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