TY - BOOK AU - WAGNER,Esther-Miriam AU - BEINHOFF,Bettina AU - OUTHWAITE,Ben TI - Merchants of innovation: the languages of traders T2 - Studies in Language Change SN - 9781501503542 PY - 2017/// CY - Berlin PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - UDJG KW - DE-Istorie KW - resursă online N1 - Index; Include referințe bibliografice; Introduction; 1. Merchants of Innovation: the languages of traders; II. Literacy of traders and their agency as linguistic trendsetters; 2. Like the coins when currencies are combined: contextualizing the written language of fifteenth-century English merchants; 3. Bridges of innovation and change: the English language around the networks of the Mercery of London; 4. The socio-linguistics of Judaeo-Arabic mercantile writing; III. Code-switching, loanwords and multilingualism; 5. Business writing in early sixteenth-century Norway; 6. Kiss Me Quick: on the naming of commodities in Britain, 1650 to the First World War; 7. The early English East India Company as a community of practice: evidence of multilingualism; 8. Language choice in forming an identity: linguistic innovations by German traders in Bergen; 9. From the synagogue to the market square: cardinal numbers in Older Yiddish; IV. Mercantile linguistic communities; 10. Early Anglo-Italian contact: new loanword evidence from two mercantile sources, 1440–1451; 11. Multilingual merchants: the trade network of the 14th century Tuscan merchant Francesco di Marco Datini; 12. On a famous lacuna: Lingua Franca the Mediterranean trade pidgin? UR - https://www-degruyter-com.am.e-nformation.ro/view/title/516519 ER -