A Study of request markers in englısh family letters from 1623 to 1660

2005-04-01
Sönmez, Margaret Jeanne M.
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This paper presents a descriptive analysis of request markers in a large number of family letters from the first half of the seventeenth century. The letters are taken from the Helsinki Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler, various other published sources and transcriptions of unpublished manuscript letters. While some weak indications of tendencies to use particular request forms for particular types of requests are found, the analysis more clearly demonstrates relationships between request markers and social relations in the period, revealing sensitive and systematic correlations between these parameters. The most concrete result of this research is a clear ordering of request forms along a line that reflects the related and asymmetrical axes of family power relations and social hierarchy.
Ealy modern English, Family correspondance, Discourse markers, Early modern family hierarchy
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/83350
European Journal Of English Studies
Department of Foreign Language Education, Article

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M. J. M. Sönmez, “A Study of request markers in englısh family letters from 1623 to 1660,” European Journal Of English Studies, pp. 9–19, 2005, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/83350.
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