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The Discourse of Desperation: Late 18th and Early 19th Century Letters by Paupers, Prisoners, and Rogues - Routledge Studies in Linguistics Timmis, Ivor (Leeds Beckett University, UK) 1st edition
The Discourse of Desperation: Late 18th and Early 19th Century Letters by Paupers, Prisoners, and Rogues - Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Timmis, Ivor (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
This book discusses how the poor and desperate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries mobilised their linguistic resources in pursuit of vital pragmatic goals, drawing on three corpora of letters written by the poor.
196 pages, 5 Tables, black and white
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 8, 2020 |
| ISBN13 | 9780367000264 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 196 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 453 g |
| Language | English |
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