Women's Language : An Analysis of Style and Expression in Letters Before 1800 (2013, Hardcover) read book FB2, EPUB, TXT

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A selection of letters from the 12th through the 18th centurieswritten in Latin, Swedish, French, German, and Englishthis compilation analyzes the differences in language and communication between women, between men, and between men and women. Armed with an exhaustive stylistic analysis, this volume attempts to answer the question Is there a special niche reserved for women's language?As it pinpoints the variations in how women expressed themselves when addressing men or other women, especially in comparison to similar letters written by men, this detailed investigation of style and expression comes to the conclusion that there is no evidence for a particular female language; however, this authoritative work is a joy to follow for anyone interested in language, linguistics, stylistic analysis, and gender., By linguistic close-reading of more than a thousand letters from the 12th through the 18th centuries--written in Latin, Swedish, French, German, and English--this compilation analyzes the differences in language and communication between women and men. Armed with an exhaustive stylistic analysis, this volume attempts to answer the question "Is there a special niche reserved for womens language?" As it pinpoints the variations in how women expressed themselves when addressing men or other women, this detailed investigation of style and expression comes to the conclusion that there is no evidence for a particular female language; however, this authoritative work is a joy to follow for anyone interested in language, linguistics, stylistic analysis, and gender., Is there a special niche reserved for womens language? This is the theory tested empirically by the authors of Womens language, by means of an exhaustive stylistic analysis of a voluminous body of letters written in five different languages -- Latin, English, German, French, and Swedish -- from medieval times through to the long eighteenth century. In a detailed investigation of style and expression, the authors have applied a number of advanced methods of study to pinpoint how women expressed themselves to other women and whether they addressed themselves differently to men. Unveiling fascinating differences in language use, but none particular to female language, this authoritative work is a joy to follow for anyone interested in language, literature, stylistic analysis, and gender studies., Selected by a close linguistic reading of more than a thousand letters from the 12th through the 18th centurieswritten in Latin, Swedish, French, German, and Englishthis compilation analyzes the differences in language and communication between women and men. Armed with an exhaustive stylistic analysis, this volume attempts to answer the question Is there a special niche reserved for women's language? As it pinpoints the variations in how women expressed themselves when addressing men or other women, this detailed investigation of style and expression comes to the conclusion that there is no evidence for a particular female langua≥ however, this authoritative work is a joy to follow for anyone interested in language, linguistics, stylistic analysis, and gender.

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