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LANGUAGE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRADE NETWORKS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Modern reflexes, unexpected consequences
Sierk Horn and Nigel Holden
Introduction
That there exists some kind of correlation between human language behaviour and the creation, extension and consolidation of business networks seems intuitively to be true. But demonstrating this as a fact is exceptionally difficult. Faced with this challenge, we are taking the unusual step of probing a distinct historical period for insights into the nature of the language of business as an occupation-specific form of language in its own right. This might seem at first glance to be both irrelevant and self-indulgent. It follows that an explicit motivation for this chapter is to refute ...
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