Social roles and language practices in late modern English / / edited by Paivi Pahta ...[et al.]
| Social roles and language practices in late modern English / / edited by Paivi Pahta ...[et al.] |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 241 p |
| Disciplina | 420.9/09033 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | PahtaPaivi |
| Collana | Pragmatics & beyond |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - 18th century
English language - 19th century English language - Social aspects - England English language - Usage - England |
| ISBN |
9786612663406
9781282663404 1282663402 9789027288233 9027288232 |
| Classificazione | HF 110 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910954740903321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writing in nonstandard English / / edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers, Paivi Pahta
| Writing in nonstandard English / / edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers, Paivi Pahta |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (415 pages) |
| Disciplina | 820.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
TaavitsainenIrma
MelchersGunnel PahtaPaivi |
| Collana | Pragmatics & beyond |
| Soggetto topico |
Dialect literature, English - History and criticism
Dialect literature, American - History and criticism Language and culture - English-speaking countries English language - Variation English language - Dialects |
| ISBN |
9786612163234
9781282163232 128216323X 9789027299031 902729903X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | WRITING IN NONSTANDARD ENGLISH -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Writing in Nonstandard English: Introduction -- Dickens as Sociolinguist: Dialect in David Copperfield -- Contemporary Irish Writing and a Model of Speech Realism -- Dialect and Accent in Jim Cartwright's Play Road as Seen through Erving Goffman's Theory on Footing -- The Representation of Nonstandard Syntax in John Dos Passos' USA Trilogy -- Doing the Unexpected: Syntax and Style in Raymond Chandler's Fiction -- Who is "Sivilizing" Who(m)? The Function of Naivety and the Criticism of Huckleberry Finn - a Multidimensional Approach -- Nonstandard Language in Early Varieties of English -- "Pills to Purge Melancholy" - Nonstandard Elements in A Dialogue Against the Feuer Pestilence -- Investigating Nonstandard Language in a Corpus of Early Modern English Dialogues: Methodological Considerations and Problems -- Language of Law and the Development of Standard English -- Cognitive Loanwords in Chaucer: Is Suprastandard Nonstandard? -- Auxiliary do in Fifteenth-Century English: Dialectal Variation and Formulaic Use -- I Think, Methinks: Register Variation, Stratification, Education and Nonstandard Language -- Catched or Caught: Towards the Standard Usage of Irregular Verbs -- What Aileth Thee, to Print So Curiously? Archaic Forms and Contemporary Newspaper Language -- Letters as a Source of Data for Reconstructing Early Spoken Scots -- Dedialectalisation and Norfolk Dialect Orthography -- Writing in Shetland Dialect -- The Ideology of Misrepresentation: Scots in English Broadsides -- The Medium for the Message -- Name index -- Subject Index -- PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910953261203321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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