Merchants of innovation [online] : the languages of traders / edited by Esther-Miriam Wagner, Bettina Beinhoff, Ben Outhwaite

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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?

Achiziție prin Proiectul Anelis Plus 2020.