Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English
1st Edition
Published on 23. June 2010
VIII, 241 pages
978-90-272-8823-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 centuries. While the specific period covered is Late Modern English, the theoretical insights offered will be of interest to any linguist interested in sociolinguistics, pragmatics and the history of English, as well as scholars in the social sciences and social history interested in the concept and realisation of roles.
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- Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Language practices in the construction of social roles in Late Modern English
- Mr Spectator, identity and social roles in an early eighteenth-century community of practice and the periodical discourse community
- How eighteenth-century book reviewers became language guardians
- "if You think me obstinate I can't help it"
- Reporting and social role construction in eighteenth-century personal correspondence
- Preacher, scholar, brother, friend
- The social space of an eighteenth-century governess
- Building trust through (self-)appraisal in nineteenth-century business correspondence
- Good-natured fellows and poor mothers
- Name index
- Subject index
- The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
