| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Pragmatics & Beyond ; new ser., v. 195 |
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Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 195
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| Contents |
Mr spectator, identity and social roles in an early eighteenth-century community of practice and the periodical discourse community / Susan M. Fitzmaurice -- How eighteenth-century book reviewers became language guardians / Carol Percy -- "If You think me obstinate I can't help it": exploring the epistolary styles and social roles of Elizabeth Montagu and Sarah Scott / Anni Sairio -- Reporting and social role construction in eighteenth-century personal correspondence / Minna Palander-Collin and Minna Nevala -- Preacher, scholar, brother, friend: social roles and code-switching in the writings of Thomas Twining / Arja Nurmi and Päivi Pahta -- The social space of an eighteenth-century governess: modality and reference in the private letters and journals of Agnes Porter / Arja Nurmi and Minna Nevala -- Building trust through (self- )appraisal in nineteenth-century business correspondence / Marina Dossena -- Good-natured fellows and poor mothers : defining social roles in British nineteenth-century children's literature / Hanna Andersdotter Sveen |
| Summary |
This volume presents a ground-breaking overview of the interconnections between socio-cultural reality and language practices, by looking at the different ways in which social roles are performed, maintained, adopted and assigned through linguistic means. The introductory chapter discusses and evaluates different theoretical approaches to the question, and the eight articles by leading scholars in the field offer a multiplicity of methodological and theoretical approaches to the description and interpretation of social roles as expressed in a variety of texts from the eighteenth and nineteenth |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English language -- 18th century.
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English language -- 19th century.
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English language -- Social aspects -- England
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English language -- England -- Usage
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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English language
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English language -- Social aspects
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English language -- Usage
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Language and languages
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| SUBJECT |
England -- Languages -- 18th century
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England -- Languages -- 19th century
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| Subject |
England
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pahta, Päivi
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| LC no. |
2010006374 |
| ISBN |
9789027288233 |
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9027288232 |
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9789027254405 |
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9027254400 |
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1282663402 |
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9781282663404 |
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9786612663406 |
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6612663405 |
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