This issue of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics aims to contribute to our
understanding of the role of merchants in language standardisation by focussing on how …

The paper considers historical lingua francas and standard language ideology from the
framework of 'language history from below'. Although some work has been devoted to mixed …

This article aims to assess the extent to which merchant language in Renaissance Italy can
be said to have undergone a process of dialect levelling. Merchant letters in the Italian …

This article contributes to the historical study of intercomprehension between speakers of
closely related languages by focusing on Italy in the period up to the mid-fifteenth century …

Text analysis can be seen to mark the birth of digital humanities (DH). A widely
conventionalised date fixes its origins to the beginning of 1946, with Roberto Busa's plans …

This chapter provides a survey of the literature on the formation of the Lombard koinè during
the Tre-and Quattrocento. The two main tendencies which characterise this period are:(1) a …

This chapter responds to the ongoing development of multilingual digital humanities as it
relates to multilingual texts. Specifically, it complicates the question of what “multilingual” …

The article researches the history and sociological substantiation of ELF (English as Lingua
Franca) in Azerbaijan. The author indicates the unique historical role of mercantile activities …

В статье представлены результаты изучения эго-документов двух тосканских купцов—
Россо ди Строцца дельи Строцци и Лапаччо ди Якопо, факторов Франческо Датини …

TRUST PLAYS A FUNDAMENTAL ROLE IN HOW INDIVIDUALS, communities, and
institutions interact. Crises of trust have always affected communities. Early modern Italy is …