Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English
( Pragmatics & Beyond New Series )
Publication series ： Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
Author： Päivi Pahta Minna Nevala Arja Nurmi Minna Palander-Collin
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2010
E-ISBN: 9789027288233
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027254405
Subject： H310.9 English history
Language： ENG
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Description
Adopting a research model from the social sciences, this volume offers a challenging new framework for the study of Late Modern English writings both from the public and the private domain. Uniquely in the context of historical sociolinguistics, the papers included offer important insights into the interrelationship of different social roles adopted by Late Modern English writers and their language use. Each paper provides the reader with an intriguing case study, showing convincingly that data from older stages of the language, despite obvious limitations as deriving from the written medium, are in fact very good data when approached with a research model that takes these limitations into account through consistent and systematic embedding in the context in which the texts were originally conceived.