Common and Courtly Language: The Stylistics of Social Class in 18th-century English LiteratureUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1986 - 167 oldal The author applies his insights on courtly-genteel and lower-class language to eighteenth-century novels, journals, and letters. |
Tartalomjegyzék
Acknowledgments | 2 |
LowerClass English 16601800 | 12 |
CourtlyGenteel Prose | 69 |
Copyright | |
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abstractions archaic archaisms asseveration authors books of model Campbell chapter Chesterfield chivalric romance Clarissa colloquial common contexts correctness courtesy books courtier courtly courtly-genteel language courtly-genteel prose courtship Daniel Defoe Defoe Defoe's deserve deverbal dialect Dictionary double negatives Dryden duty edited eighteenth century elegance Elizabethan English grammars English language English Tongue Essay example expressions father favour feudal genteel give glish grace grammarians Hawkesworth high friendship honour humble servant Humphry Humphry Clinker John Johnson Kames Lady less linguistic literary locutions Lovelace lower-class English lower-class language Lowth Madam merit middle-class model letters modern Moll Flanders narrative never noble lord novel obliged old-fashioned passages person petition polite Pope Prayer prescriptive prescriptivism quotations Richardson Robert Lowth rules Samuel Johnson says sentence Shakespeare social class solecisms speech stylistics subordinate conjunction Swift syntax texts things tion Tom Jones topic upper-class usage valediction verb vulgar words writing written