Linguistic devices coping with death in Victorian obituaries

Given that obituaries constitute a breeding ground for the proliferation of different means of coping with death, it is my purpose in this paper to provide an overview of the main linguistic devices used in a sample of Irish Victorian death notices and analyse to what extent such devices...

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Main Author: Crespo Fernández, Eliecer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Alicante 2007-11-01
Series:Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
Online Access:https://raei.ua.es/article/view/2007-n20-linguistic-devices-coping-with-death-in-victorian-obituaries