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The Discourse of Desperation: Late 18th and Early 19th Century Letters by Paupers, Prisoners, and Rogues - Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Timmis, Ivor (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
The Discourse of Desperation: Late 18th and Early 19th Century Letters by Paupers, Prisoners, and Rogues - Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Timmis, Ivor (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
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.
208 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 29, 2022 |
ISBN13 | 9780367522643 |
Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Pages | 196 |
Dimensions | 276 g |
Language | English |
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