Contents -- List of Figures ix -- List of Tables xi -- 1 Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography: Theoretical Outlook and Methodological Practices 1 -- Steffan Davies, Nils Langer and Wim Vandenbussche - Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography: Interdisciplinary Problems and Opportunities 3 -- Patrick Honeybone - History and Historical Linguistics: Two Types of Cognitive Reconstruction? 15 -- Nicholas M. Wolf - History and Linguistics: The Irish Language as a Case Study in an Interdisciplinary Approach to Culture 49 -- Brian D. Joseph - Historical Linguistics and Sociolinguistics: Strange Bedfellows or Natural Friends? 67 -- Nicola McLelland - From Humanist History to Linguistic Theory: The Case of the Germanic Rootword 89 -- Agnete Nesse - Editorial Practices and Language Choice: 'Low German Language Monuments' in Norway 111 -- 2 Standardization and Authenticity 127 -- Robert Evans - Of ficial Languages: A Brief Prehistory 129 -- Tomasz Kamusella - Classifying the Slavic Languages, or the Politics of Classification 147 -- José del Valle - Linguistic History and the Development of Normative Regimes: The Royal Spanish Academy's Disputed Transatlantic Authority 175 -- Juan R. Valdez - Colouring Language: Pedro Henríquez Ureña's Representations of Spanish and Dominican Identity 193 -- Laura Villa - 'Because When Governments Speak, They Are Not Always Right': National Construction and Orthographic Conf licts in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Spain 209 -- Gijsbert Rutten and Rik Vosters - As Many Norms as There Were Scribes? Language History, Norms and Usage in the Southern Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century 229 -- Anneleen Vanden Boer - Language and Nation: The Case of the German-Speaking Minority in Belgium 255 -- 3 Demographics and Social Dynamics 269.

Richard Ingham - The Decline of Bilingual Competence in French in Medieval England: Evidence from the PROME Database 271 -- Rembert Eufe - Merovingian Coins and Their Inscriptions: A Challenge to Linguists and Historians 293 -- Remco Knooihuizen - The Use of Historical Demography for Historical Sociolinguistics: The Case of Dunkirk 323 -- 4 Language History from Below 341 -- Judith Nobels and Marijke van der Wal - Linking Words to Writers: Building a Reliable Corpus for Historical Sociolinguistic Research 343 -- Helmut Graser and B. Ann Tlusty - Sixteenth-Century Street Songs and Language History 'From Below' 363 -- Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy - Mood Distinction in Late Middle English: The End of the Inf lectional Subjunctive 389 -- 5 Language and Ideology 407 -- Lisa Carroll-Davies - Identifying the Enemy: Using a CDA and Corpus Approach to Analyse Sandinista Strategies of Naming 409 -- Krassimir Stoyanov - Ritualized Slogan Lexis in the Bulgarian Press during the Times of Violent Contradiction in Ideologies (1944-1947) 429 -- Kristine Horner and Melanie Wagner - Remembering World War II and Legitimating Luxembourgish as the National Language: Consensus or Conf lict? 447 -- Michela Giordano and Federica Falchi - John Stuart Mill and Salvatore Morelli: Language as a Social Tool in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Italy 465 -- Notes on Contributors 483 -- Index 489.