Published
Iten, Mark. 2024. Linguistic Prescriptivism and the Language of the Laboring Poor: The Case of will/shall. Studia Neophilologica, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2024.2406648
Auer, Anita, Anne-Christine Gardner & Mark Iten. 2024. Creating a Corpus of Late Modern English Pauper Letters: Uncertainties, Challenges, and Solutions. In Kilian Schindler & Julia Straub (eds.), Trust and Uncertainty: Perspectives from Linguistics and Literary Studies (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, Vol. 44), pp. 121-140. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
Gardner, Anne-Christine. 2023. English pauper letters in the eighteenth century and beyond: On the variability and evolution of a new text type. In Oliver Currie (ed.), Sociocultural Change and the Development of Vernaculars in Early Modern Europe. Special issue of Linguistica, 63(1-2), 301-336.
Auer, Anita, Anne-Christine Gardner & Mark Iten. 2023. Special Issue of English Language & Linguistics 27(3): Speech Representation in Late Modern English Text Types. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Auer, Anita. 2023. Introduction. In Anita Auer, Anne-Christine Gardner & Mark Iten (eds.), Special issue on speech representation in Late Modern English text types. English Language & Linguistics, 27(3), 437-445. doi:10.1017/S1360674323000503
Gardner, Anne-Christine. 2023. Speech reflections in Late Modern English pauper letters from Dorset. In Anita Auer, Anne-Christine Gardner & Mark Iten (eds.), Special issue on speech representation in Late Modern English text types. English Language & Linguistics, 27(3), 491-516. doi:10.1017/S1360674323000333
Auer, Anita, Anne-Christine Gardner & Mark Iten. 2023. Patterns of Linguistic Variation in Late Modern English Pauper Petitions from Berkshire and Dorset. In Markus Schiegg & Judith Huber (eds.). Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Lang, pp. 133-156. Available open access here: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1303822
Gardner, Anne-Christine. 2023. Petitioning for the Education of the Poor: The Sociohistorical Context of Self-corrections in a Late Modern English Draft Letter. In Markus Schiegg & Judith Huber (eds.). Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Lang, pp. 157-180. Available open access here: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1303822
Gardner, Anne-Christine, Anita Auer & Mark Iten. 2023. Language and Mobility of Late Modern English Paupers. In Michael C. Frank & Daniel Schreier (eds.), Migrations and Contacts (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, Vol. 41), pp. 45-70. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
Auer, Anita, Anne-Christine Gardner & Mark Iten. 2022. A Corpus of Late Modern English Pauper Petitions, Contribution to the AMARC Newsletter (The Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections), Issue 78, April 2022.
In preparation
Auer, Anita & Mark Iten. In preparation. Northern English pauper letters: Exploring social and regional variation in late modern England. In Christine Elsweiler & Sarah van Eyndhoven (eds.), Interactions with the Standard in Early and Late Modern Regional Varieties of English (Advances in Historical Linguistics). Language Sciences Press.
Gardner, Anne-Christine. In preparation. Self-corrections in Late Modern English pauper letters.
Related previous publications
2019
Auer, Anita & Mikko Laitinen (eds.). 2019. Mobility, Variability and Changing Literacies in Modern Times. Special Issue of Neuphilologische Mitteilungen.
Auer, Anita & Mikko Laitinen. 2019. Introduction to Mobility, Variability and Changing Literacies in Modern Times, pp. 13-20. Special Issue of Neuphilologische Mitteilungen.
2015
Auer, Anita, Daniel Schreier & Richard J. Watts (eds.). 2015. Letter Writing and Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Auer, Anita. 2015. Stylistic Variation in Modern English Letters. In Anita Auer, Daniel Schreier & Richard J. Watts (eds.), Letter Writing and Language Change, pp. 133-155. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Auer, Anita, Daniel Schreier & Richard J. Watts. 2015. Epilogue: Where next?. In Anita Auer, Daniel Schreier & Richard J. Watts (eds.), Letter Writing and Language Change, pp. 277-287. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fairman, Tony. 2015. Language in print and handwriting. In Anita Auer & Daniel Schreier & Richard J. Watts (eds.), pp. 53-71. Letter Writing and Language Change, pp. 53-71. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Laitinen, Mikko. 2015. Early nineteenth-century pauper letters. In Anita Auer & Daniel Schreier & Richard J. Watts (eds.), Letter Writing and Language Change, pp. 185-201. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2014
Auer, Anita. 2014. Nineteenth-century English: Norms and usage. In Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters & Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900. A Sociolinguistic and Comparative Perspective, pp. 151-170. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Auer, Anita, Mikko Laitinen, Moragh Gordon & Tony Fairman. 2014. An Electronic Corpus of Letters of Artisans and the Labouring Poor (England, c. 1750-1835): Compilation Principles and Coding Conventions. In Lieven Vandelanotte, Kristin Davidse, Caroline Gentens & Ditte Kemps (eds.), Recent Advances in Corpus Linguistics. Developing and Exploiting Corpora, pp. 9-29. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
Laitinen, Mikko & Anita Auer. 2014. Letters of Artisans and the Labouring Poor (England, c. 1750-1835). Approaching Linguistic Diversity in Late Modern English. In Simone E. Pfenninger, Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt & Daniel Schreier (eds.), Contact, Variation and Change in the History of English, pp. 187-212. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2013
Auer, Anita & Tony Fairman. 2013. Letters of Artisans and the Labouring Poor (England, c. 1750-1835). In Paul Bennett, Martin Durrell, Silke Scheible & Richard J. Whitt (eds.) New Methods in Historical Corpus Linguistics, pp. 77-91. Narr: Tübingen.
2012
Auer, Anita. 2012. Late Modern English Standardization. In Laurel Brinton & Alexander Bergs (eds.), Historical Linguistics of English: An International Handbook, pp. 939-951. New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Fairman, Tony. 2012. Letters in Mechanically-schooled English: Theories and Ideologies. In Marina Dossena & Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, pp. 205-227. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2009
Fairman, Tony. 2009. She has four and big agane: Ellipses and Prostheses in Mechanically-schooled Writing in England, 1795-1834. In Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade & Wim van der Wurf (eds.), Current Issues in Late Modern English, pp. 409-429. Bern: Peter Lang.
2008
Auer, Anita. 2008. The Letter wihch that I Wrote – Self-Corrections in LModE Letters. In Marina Dossena & Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (eds.), Studies in Late Modern English Correspondence: Methodology and Data, pp. 213-234. Bern: Lang.
Fairman, Tony. 2008. The Study of Writing in Sociolinguistics. In Susan Kermas & Maurizio Gotti (eds.), Socially-Conditioned Language Change: Diachronic and Synchronic Insights, pp. 53-75. Lecce: Edizioni del Grifo.
Fairman, Tony. 2008. Strike-Throughs: What Textual Alterations can Tell us about Writers and their Scripts, 1795-1835. In Marina Dossena & Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (eds.), Studies in Late Modern English Correspondence: Methodology and Data, pp. 193-212. Bern: Peter Lang.
2007
Fairman, Tony. 2007. Writing and the “Standard”: England, 1795-1834. Multilingua 26(2/3): 167-201.
Fairman, Tony. 2007. ”Lower-order” Letters, Schooling and the English Language, 1795 to 1834. In Stephan Elspaß, Nils Langer, Joachim Scharloth & Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), Germanic Language Histories ‘from Below’ (1700-2000), pp. 31-43. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
2006
Fairman, Tony. 2006. Words in English Record Office Documents in the early 1800s. In Merja Kÿto & Matts Rydén (eds.), Nineteenth Century English: Stability and Change, pp. 56-88. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2005
Fairman, Tony. 2005. Schooling the Poor in Horsmonden, 1797-1816. The Local Historian 35(2): 120-131.
2003
Fairman, Tony. 2003. Letters of the English Labouring Classes in the English Language, 1800-1834. In Marina Dossena & Charles Jones (eds.), Insights into Late Modern English, pp. 265-282. Bern: Peter Lang.
2002
Fairman, Tony. 2002. riting these fu lines: English overseers’ correspondence, 1800-1834. Verslagen & Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 112( 3) 557-573.
1999
Fairman, Tony. 1999. English Pauper Letters, 1800-34, and the English Language. In David Barton & Nigel Hall (eds.), Letter Writing as a Social Practice, pp. 63-82. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.