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Social roles and language practices in late modern English /
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 evalu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser., 195. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.