Cultural climate and linguistic style: change in english fictional prose from the late victorian to the early modern period
Auteur :
Cawthra, Gillian
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349094042
Date de publication :
1 janv. 1989
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
A book exploring the relation between culture and syntax at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The analysis of particular syntactic features in novels of the time shows clear differences of usage which may be seen to reflect current social upheaval.