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Social roles and language practices in late modern English / edited by Päivi Pahta ... [et al.].

Other author/creatorPahta, Päivi.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
Descriptionviii, 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010006374
ISBN9789027254405 (alk. paper)
ISBN9027254400 (alk. paper)
ISBN9789027288233 (eb : alk. paper)
ISBN9027288232 (eb : alk. paper)

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