The use of You and Thou in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The aim of this paper is to analyse the different factors which determine the choice of one of the two variants of the second person singular pronoun, You or Thou, by the various characters of Shakespeare's play The Two Gentlemen of Verona. The total number of you and thou forms whic...
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doaj-da68a7f649fd4081bcb525c1cc21a93d2020-11-25T02:02:38ZengUniversidad de AlicanteRevista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses0214-48082171-861X1999-11-01123710.14198/raei.1999.12.034544The use of You and Thou in The Two Gentlemen of VeronaDíaz Pérez, Francisco Javier The aim of this paper is to analyse the different factors which determine the choice of one of the two variants of the second person singular pronoun, You or Thou, by the various characters of Shakespeare's play The Two Gentlemen of Verona. The total number of you and thou forms which constitute this corpus is 777. Each of these forms has been analyzed taking into account the social relationships of power and solidarity established between the interlocutors, as well as the variables of social class and sex. In addition, emotional factors have been considered. It is not my intention to extrapolate the results obtained in this study to the English usage of Shakespeare's age. They simply refer to the play itself.https://raei.ua.es/article/view/1999-n12-the-use-of-you-and-thou-in-the-two-gentlemen-of-verona |
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the different factors which determine the choice of one of the two variants of the second person singular pronoun, You or Thou, by the various characters of Shakespeare's play The Two Gentlemen of Verona. The total number of you and thou forms which constitute this corpus is 777. Each of these forms has been analyzed taking into account the social relationships of power and solidarity established between the interlocutors, as well as the variables of social class and sex. In addition, emotional factors have been considered. It is not my intention to extrapolate the results obtained in this study to the English usage of Shakespeare's age. They simply refer to the play itself. |
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