"Vous Etes Hombre De Bien"| A Study of Bilingual Family Letters to and from Colonial Louisiana, 1748-1867

<p> In this dissertation, I use a bilingual epistolary corpus to examine the interaction of language contact, language- and genre-specific conventions, and speakers&rsquo; individual communicative strategies. Although multilingualism was a common historical condition, many traditional lang...

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Main Author: Thomas, Jenelle Katherine
Language:EN
Published: University of California, Berkeley 2018
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