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Language practices in the construction of social roles in Late Modern English
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Päivi Pahta
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Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Language practices in the construction of social roles in Late Modern English 1
- Mr Spectator, identity and social roles in an early eighteenth-century community of practice and the periodical discourse community 29
- How eighteenth-century book reviewers became language guardians 55
- “if You think me obstinate I can’t help it” 87
- Reporting and social role construction in eighteenth-century personal correspondence 111
- Preacher, scholar, brother, friend 135
- The social space of an eighteenth-century governess 163
- Building trust through (self-)appraisal in nineteenth-century business correspondence 191
- Good-natured fellows and poor mothers 211
- Name index 229
- Subject index 235
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Language practices in the construction of social roles in Late Modern English 1
- Mr Spectator, identity and social roles in an early eighteenth-century community of practice and the periodical discourse community 29
- How eighteenth-century book reviewers became language guardians 55
- “if You think me obstinate I can’t help it” 87
- Reporting and social role construction in eighteenth-century personal correspondence 111
- Preacher, scholar, brother, friend 135
- The social space of an eighteenth-century governess 163
- Building trust through (self-)appraisal in nineteenth-century business correspondence 191
- Good-natured fellows and poor mothers 211
- Name index 229
- Subject index 235
