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Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues
Terry Walker
其他書名
Trials, Depositions, and Drama Comedy
出版
John Benjamins Publishing
, 2007-05-15
主題
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric
ISBN
9027292604
9789027292605
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5ao5AAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
This book is a corpus-based study examining
thou
and
you
in three speech-related genres from 15601760, a crucial period in the history of second person singular pronouns, spanning the time from when
you
became dominant to when
thou
became all but obsolete. The study embraces the fields of corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and historical sociolinguistics. Using data drawn from the recently released
A Corpus of English Dialogues 15601760
and manuscript material, the aim is to ascertain which extra-linguistic and linguistic factors highlighted by previous research appear particularly relevant in the selection and relative distribution of
thou
and
you
. Previous research on
thou
and
you
has tended to concentrate on Drama and/or been primarily qualitative in nature. Depositions in particular have hitherto received very little attention. This book is intended to help fill a gap in the literature by presenting an in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis of pronoun usage in Trials, Depositions, and, for comparative purposes, Drama Comedy.