Published
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.
Accepted
Mark Iten. Accepted. Linguistic Prescriptivism and the Language of the Labouring Poor: The Case of will/shall. In Javier Calle & Miriam Criado (eds.), Special Issue of Studia Neophilologica entitled “Prescriptivism and Language Use in Late Modern English”.
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.