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TY - JOUR
T1 - Pray in Early Modern English drama
AU - Lutzky, Ursula
AU - Demmen, Jane
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This study seeks to provide new insights into the development and use of Pray in Early Modern English. The study is based on the sociopragmatically annotated Drama Corpus, which combines the drama text samples of three different Early Modern English corpora, comprising a total of 242,561 words from a time span of 1500 to 1760. We investigate the quantitative distribution of the different forms in which Pray appears during this period, and the influence of the variables of social status and gender. The aim of the current study is consequently to shed more light on the sociopragmatic nature of Pray forms, and to reach a more profound understanding of their use in the Early Modern English period.
AB - This study seeks to provide new insights into the development and use of Pray in Early Modern English. The study is based on the sociopragmatically annotated Drama Corpus, which combines the drama text samples of three different Early Modern English corpora, comprising a total of 242,561 words from a time span of 1500 to 1760. We investigate the quantitative distribution of the different forms in which Pray appears during this period, and the influence of the variables of social status and gender. The aim of the current study is consequently to shed more light on the sociopragmatic nature of Pray forms, and to reach a more profound understanding of their use in the Early Modern English period.
KW - discourse marker
KW - Early Modern English
KW - gender
KW - pray
KW - social rank
U2 - 10.1075/jhp.14.2.05lut
DO - 10.1075/jhp.14.2.05lut
M3 - Journal article
VL - 14
SP - 263
EP - 284
JO - Journal of Historical Pragmatics
JF - Journal of Historical Pragmatics
SN - 1566-5852
IS - 2
ER -