Language living on the margins and beyond : a historical pragmatic study of marginal vocabulary use in eighteenth-century English
This thesis investigates the use of marginal vocabulary in eighteenth-century texts from a historical pragmatic perspective. The kind of marginal vocabulary that I will be specifically looking at is the special terminology associated with thieves, beggars and the low life known as ‘cant’. The aim of...
Main Author: | But, Roxanne |
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Other Authors: | Fitzmaurice, Susan M. |
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University of Sheffield
2015
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.684558 |
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