Letter writing as a social practice / edited by David Barton, Nigel Hall.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

LETTER WRITING AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; CHAPTER 1. Introduction; CHAPTER 2. Letters and the Social Grounding of Differentiated Genres; CHAPTER 3. The Familiar Letter and Social Refinement in America, 1750-1800; CHAPTER 4. Letter Writing in a Cornish Community in the 1790s; CHAPTER 5. English Pauper Letters 1800-34, and the English Language; CHAPTER 6. The Materiality of Letter Writing: A nineteenth century perspective; CHAPTER 7. Letter-Writing Instruction in 19th Century Schools in the United States.

This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in a wide variety of forms in most domains of life. More broadly, the importance of letter writing can be seen in that the phenomenon has been widespread historically, being one of earliest forms of writing, and a wide range of contemporary genres have their roots in letters. The writing of a letter is embedded in a particular social situation, and like all other types o.

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