Great men and charming creatures : on male and female terms in eighteenth century novels
A corpus of terms for human beings collected from 18th century novels is studied from a broad sociolinguistic perspective. A summary of recent linguistic theories and a survey of 18th century culture and society are provided as background. The basic assumption is that the meaning of words is depende...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Umeå universitet, Moderna språk
2000
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-65860 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:91-7191-891-4 (print) |