Van Der Wal

Biographic Data

ID3460604
NAMEVan Der Wal
FAMILY NAMEVan Der Wal
SIGNATUREVAN DER WAL
AFFILIATIONSLeiden University
ORCID0000-0003-1890-908X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS16
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Forms of address as politic behaviour in seventeenth-century Dutch private and business letters

    Open AccessGijsbert Rutten, Van Der Wal et al.ARTICLEJournal of Historical Pragmatics2026References: 4

    Various characteristics of historical letters, such as formulaic language and forms of address, have been analysed from a politeness perspective (e.g., Bijkerk [2004] and Tiisala [2004] ) and sometimes also explicitly from a sociopragmatic perspective ( Nevala 2004a ). In Rutten and van der Wal (2014) , we analysed Dutch private letters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, arguing that the many changes occurring in the system of forms of …

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Language Standardization

    Open AccessVan Der Wal, Marijke van der WalARTICLELanguage & History2024

    Language standardisation is a major research topic shared by historical linguists and historiographers of linguistics. The interest in language standardisation dates from the 1950s to 1970s, the pe

  • Early Modern migrants in a language contact setting

    Open AccessVan Der Wal, Marijke van der WalARTICLEJournal of Historical Sociolinguist…2018

    The present article demonstrates how research on confiscated late-seventeenth-century letters allows us to gain insight into linguistic practices of second and third generations of Dutch-speaking migrants who lived in the German city of Hamburg, in a predominantly Low German region. The historical background of the preserved Heusch correspondence, spoken and written communication in merchant circles, and foreign language learning will be discusse…

  • The discovery, nature, and implications of a Papiamentu text fragment from 1783

    Bart Jacobs, Van Der Wal et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…2015

    In this paper, we discuss the recent discovery of four letters written in 1783, one of which is written fully in Papiamentu, the other three comprising Papiamentu fragments. The data in these constitute one of the earliest written attestations of Papiamentu. We first provide a brief overview of the earliest attestations of Papiamentu and then present the Letters as Loot research programme, to which we owe the discovery of the 1783 letters. Follow…

  • Letters as Loot

    Open AccessGijsbert Rutten, Gijsbert Johan Rutten et al.BOOKLetters as loot2014Cited by: 14References: 9

    The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents an in-depth study of the language of letters focussing on a unique collection of Dutch private letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which comprises letters from the lower, middle and upper ranks, written by men as well as women.The monograph …

  • Ego-documents in a historical-sociolinguistic perspective

    Van Der Wal, Gijsbert RuttenCHAPTERTouching the past2013

  • Touching the past

    Gijsbert Johan Rutten, M J van der Wal et al.EDITORBOOKTouching the past2013

  • Functions of epistolary formulae in Dutch letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

    Gijsbert Rutten, Van Der WalARTICLEJournal of Historical Pragmatics2012Cited by: 2References: 4

    Wray (2002) distinguishes three main functions of formulaic language relating to processing, interaction and discourse marking. In this paper, we show that Wray’s analysis of the functions of formulaic language also applies to historical letter-writing in a corpus of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch letters. Discourse is marked with formulae indicating the text type or the text structure. Interaction is covered by intersubjective formula…

  • Local dialects, supralocal writing systems

    Gijsbert Rutten, Van Der Wal et al.ARTICLEWritten Language & Literacy2011

    In historical sociolinguistics, it is often assumed that ego-documents such as private letters represent the spoken language of the past as closely as possible. In this paper, we will try to determine the degree of orality of seventeenth-century Dutch private letters: the degree to which the spoken local dialect is represented in these texts, and at the same time, the extent to which scribes possibly converged towards supralocal writing systems. …

  • Meer Der Geleerde Weereld’ Hunne Vernuftige Gedachten als der Jeugd’ Hunne Lessen Mede te Deelen? Vragen Over het Gebruik van Grammatika’s

    Van Der WalCHAPTERVragende wijs: Vragen over tekst,…1990