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Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English

ISBN: 9027288232 ;ISBN: 9789027288233 ;ISBN: 9027254400 ;ISBN: 9789027254405 ;EISBN: 9027288232 ;EISBN: 9789027288233 ;OCLC: 657762938

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  • Title:
    Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English
  • Author: Pahta, Päivi ; Nevala, Minna ; Nurmi, Arja ; Palander-Collin, Minna
  • Nurmi, Arja ; Nevala, Minna ; Palander-Collin, Minna ; Pahta, Päivi
  • Subjects: Cell phones ; Dialects ; Digital music players ; English language ; iPhone (Smartphone) ; Language ; Late Modern English ; Pocket computers ; Sociolinguistics ; The English Language
  • Description: The present paper is a corpus-based study which examines social roles as constructed in British nineteenth-century children's literature. Both gender roles overall as well as the more specific roles of mother and father are investigated. The main approach is to systematically study adjectival descriptions of characters both quantitatively and qualitatively in order to find recurring patterns of description that function as part of defining a social role. The method of classification is primarily through semantic domains. The study shows that the female social role is defined as involving few mental qualities, whereas a pleasant appearance is important. In contrast, social status and positive mental characteristics are important defining factors for the male social role.
  • Publisher: Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • Creation Date: 2010
  • Format: 255
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9027288232
    ISBN: 9789027288233
    ISBN: 9027254400
    ISBN: 9789027254405
    EISBN: 9027288232
    EISBN: 9789027288233
    OCLC: 657762938
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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