基本説明
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.
Full 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.
Contents
1. Preface; 2. Language practices in the construction of social roles in Late Modern English (by Pahta, Paivi); 3. Mr Spectator, identity and social roles in an early eighteenth-century community of practice and the periodical discourse community (by Fitzmaurice, Susan); 4. How eighteenth-century book reviewers became language guardians (by Percy, Carol); 5. "if You think me obstinate I can't help it": Exploring the epistolary styles and social roles of Elizabeth Montagu and Sarah Scott (by Sairio, Anni); 6. Reporting and social role construction in eighteenth-century personal correspondence (by Palander-Collin, Minna); 7. Preacher, scholar, brother, friend: Social roles and code-switching in the writings of Thomas Twining (by Nurmi, Arja); 8. The social space of an eighteenth-century governess: Modality and reference in the private letters and journals of Agnes Porter (by Nurmi, Arja); 9. Building trust through (self-)appraisal in nineteenth-century business correspondence (by Dossena, Marina); 10. Good-natured fellows and poor mothers: Defining social roles in British nineteenth-century children's literature (by Andersdotter Sveen, Hanna); 11. Name index; 12. Subject index
