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The story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3 player, and a book, traveling aimlessly for three years, from motel to motel, meeting people on the road. Rather than learn the names of his fellow travelers--or invent nicknames for them--he assigns them numbers. There's 239, for example, who once dreamed of being a poet, but who now only reads her poems to a friend in a coma; there's 109, who rides trains endlessly because of a broken heart; and 32, who's already decided to commit suicide. The narrator writes letters to these men and women in the hope that he can console them in their various miseries, as well as keep a record of his own experiences: A letter is like a journal entry for me, except that it gets sent to other people. No one writes back, of course, but that doesn't mean that there isn't some hope that one of them will, someday . . .

Interpersonal communication --- Letter writing --- Young men

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Chinese literature --- Chinese letters --- Letter writing, Chinese. --- Chinese letter writing --- History and criticism. --- Letter writing, Chinese --- S15/0316 --- S16/0180 --- History and criticism --- China: Language--Styles of writing --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Stylistics

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For a long time, private correspondence has been a subject of interest for scholars from the humanities, especially for historians and literary scholars, as well as for sociologists, psychologists etc. The interest in this unique kind of material is also growing in the field of linguistics. The book represents a work of several Czech scholars who have been systematically dealing with the language of correspondence, providing new approaches to this research topic. Attention is paid especially to corpus processing of private correspondence, using these sources also for the purpose of a quantitative research of usage. Modern methodology from the fields of sociolinguistic and pragmalinguistics is used to analyse the correspondence of significant personalities from the Czech culture past, such as B. Smetana, B. Němcová, J. Neruda, and K. Čapek.

Letter writing, Czech --- Czech letters --- Czech language --- Languages & Literatures --- Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures --- Czech letter writing --- Bohemian language --- Slavic languages, Western --- Czech literature --- History and criticism --- Lexicography --- Lexicology --- Letter writing, Czech. --- History and criticism. --- Lexicography. --- Lexicology.

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Book history --- Theory of knowledge --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Brevskrivning. --- Brief. --- Communication in science --- Communication in science. --- Congressi --- Epistemologia --- Epistolografia --- Forskningsinformation. --- Historia. --- Information scientifique --- Letter writing --- Letter writing. --- Wissenschaftstransfer. --- 1500-1699. --- 1500-talet. --- 1600-talet.

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Located at the intersection of historical pragmatics, letters and manuscript studies, this book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611. It investigates multiple ways in which socio-culturally and socio-familially contextualized reading of particular collections may increase our understanding of early modern letters as a particular type of handwritten communicative activity. The book also adds to our understanding of these women as individual users of English in their historical moment, especially in terms of literacy and their engagement with

English letters --- Letter writing --- Women and literature --- Letters in literature. --- Letters as a theme in literature --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- Letters --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- History --- Thynne, Joan, --- Thynne, Maria, --- England --- Social life and customs