By Terry Walker
This ebook is a corpus-based learn reading thou and also you in 3 speech-related genres from 1560–1760, a very important interval within the background of moment individual singular pronouns, spanning the time from in case you grew to become dominant to while thou grew to become all yet out of date. The research embraces the fields of corpus linguistics, historic pragmatics, and ancient sociolinguistics. utilizing info drawn from the lately published A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 and manuscript fabric, the purpose is to envision which extra-linguistic and linguistic components highlighted by means of earlier examine seem relatively suitable within the choice and relative distribution of thou and also you. earlier study on thou and also you has tended to pay attention to Drama and/or been essentially qualitative in nature. Depositions particularly have hitherto bought little or no realization. This e-book is meant to assist fill a niche within the literature through providing an in-depth qualitative and quantitative research of pronoun utilization in Trials, Depositions, and, for comparative reasons, Drama Comedy.
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E. This is because the title ‘Mr’ is conspicuous by its absence, combined with the fact that school-teachers were “socially less established” than those in, for example, the legal profession (Corfield 1995: 31). This example illustrates how any uncertainties about apparent status should be reflected in the coding, and the possible value of double codes (although the use of a double code proved unecessary in this case), as this should result in more accurate, if less specific, classifications.
The first example is ‘Mr’ Jeffreys (in The Genuine Trial of John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffreys from 1752) who had the occupation of butcher. He would otherwise have received the code ‘D’ for his occupation as a retailer or tradesman. Had the information been only ‘John Jeffreys, butcher’ the code allotted would have been ‘D’, as a lack of the increasingly generalised term ‘Mr’ is more telling than its use. There is, however, an exam- Chapter 3. 4 The classifications for age and rank for The Genuine and Authentick Trial of Mr.
3). An example of such inaccuracy is when the defendant Lawrence Hill, who is described as a labourer, and is a servant who waits at table, is addressed by the judge as ‘Mr Hill’ (in The Tryals of Robert Green, Henry Berry, & Lawrence Hill published in 1679). To complicate matters further, in the Trial texts, certain justices are termed ‘Mr Justice + surname’ when in fact a little background research shows them to have been baronets (a similar usage is noted by Barber 1997: 248–249). ) as stating in 1745 that ‘Mrs’ was not used until a woman was married.