Style-Shifting and Accommodative Competence in Late Middle English Written Correspondence: Putting Audience Design to the Test of Time

Hernández-Campoy, Juan M.; García-Vidal, Tamara

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Style-Shifting and Accommodative Competence in Late Middle English Written Correspondence: Putting Audience Design to the Test of Time

dc.contributor.author	Hernández-Campoy, Juan M.
dc.contributor.author	García-Vidal, Tamara
dc.contributor.department	Filología Inglesa
dc.date.accessioned	2024-12-18T09:11:37Z
dc.date.available	2024-12-18T09:11:37Z
dc.date.issued	2018-10-27
dc.description	©2018. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This document is the accepted version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Folia Linguistica: Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1515/flih-2018-0014	es
dc.description.abstract	Style constitutes an essential component for the non-referential indexicality of speakers’ sociolinguistic behaviour in interpersonal communication. Historical Sociolinguistics applies tenets and findings of present-day research to the interpretation of linguistic material from the past, but without giving intra-speaker variation the same relevance as to inter-speaker variation. The aim of this paper is to show results obtained from the investigation of style-shifting processes in late Medieval England by applying contemporary models of diaphasic variation of Audience Design to historical corpora of written correspondence. The study is carried out through the analysis of the use of the orthographic variable (TH) by male members of the Paston family from the Paston Letters corpus when addressing recipients from different social ranks. The data show addressee and referee-based accommodation patterns in the communicative practice of Medieval individuals. In addition to tracing language variation and change in speech communities, private letters may also shed light onto the motivations and mechanisms for intra-speaker variation in individuals and their stylistic choices in past societies.	es
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dc.format.extent	43	es
dc.identifier.citation	Folia Linguistica: Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae, 52(s39-s2), 383-420
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1515/flih-2018-0014
dc.identifier.issn	1614-7308
dc.identifier.issn	0165-4004
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/147603
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	De Gruyter	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Sociolinguistics	es
dc.subject	Audienceship	es
dc.subject	Addressivity	es
dc.subject	Style-shifting	es
dc.subject	Accommodative competence	es
dc.subject	Uniformitarian principle	es
dc.subject	Historical corpora	es
dc.subject	Private written correspondence	es
dc.title	Style-Shifting and Accommodative Competence in Late Middle English Written Correspondence: Putting Audience Design to the Test of Time	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es