Social roles and language practices in late modern English
By: edited by Paivi Pahta...[et al.].
Contributors: Pahta, Päivi.
Series: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series -- 195
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027254405; 9789027288233
Subjects: English language -- 18th century; English language -- 19th century; English language -- Social aspects -- England; English language -- Usage -- England; England -- Languages -- 18th century; England -- Languages -- 19th century
Notes: "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."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mr spectator, identity and social roles in an early eighteenth-century; title: Community of practice and the periodical discourse community / Susan M. Fitzmaurice; title: How eighteenth-century book reviewers became language guardians / Carol Percy; title: If You think me obstinate I can't help it: exploring the epistolary; title: Styles and social roles of Elizabeth Montagu and Sarah Scott; title: / anni sairio; title: reporting and social role construction in eighteenth-century; title: Personal correspondence / Minna Palander-Collin and Minna Nevala; title: Preacher, scholar, brother, friend: Social roles and code-switching in the writings of Thomas Twining / Arja Nurmi and Päivi Pahta; title: 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; title: Building trust through (self-)appraisal in nineteenth-century business correspondence / Marina Dossena; title: Social roles and language practices in late modern English good-natured fellows and poor mothers: defining social roles in British nineteenth-century children's literature /; title: Hanna andersdotter sveen.