Description:
This book discusses how the poor and desperate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries mobilised their linguistic resources in pursuit of vital pragmatic goals, drawing on three corpora of letters written by the poor.
Pub Date: July 8, 2020
Dewey: 305.56909420
LCCN: 2020007204
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography, Index
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.70" H x 9.10" L x 6.10" W ( 0.95 lbs) 196 pages
BISAC Categories:
Language Arts and Disciplines | Linguistics | Pragmatics | Social Science | Poverty and Homelessness
Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Description:
This book discusses how the poor and desperate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries mobilised their linguistic resources in pursuit of vital pragmatic goals, drawing on three corpora of letters written by the poor.