Merchants of Innovation : the Languages of Traders /

Traders around the world use particular spoken argots, to guard commercial secrets or to cement their identity as members of a certain group. The written registers of traders, too, in correspondence and other commercial texts show significant differences from the language used in official, legal or...

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Other Authors: Beinhoff, Bettina, Outhwaite, Ben, Wagner, Esther-Miriam
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2017]
Series:Studies in Language Change SLC ; 15.
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