Social roles and language practices in late modern English / edited by Päivi Pahta ... [et al.].
| Other author | Pahta, Päivi. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., |
| Description | viii, 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Pragmatics & Beyond ; new ser., v. 195 Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 195. ^A284504 |
| 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. |
| General note | "Social roles and language practices in late modern English, organized as a workshop in the Third Late Modern English Conference in Leiden in August 2007"--Pref. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010006374 |
| ISBN | 9789027254405 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9027254400 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9789027288233 (eb : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9027288232 (eb : alk. paper) |
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