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Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English
This volume presents a ground-breaking overview of the interconnections between socio-cultural reality and language practices, by looking at the different ways in which social roles are performed, maintained, adopted and assigned through linguistic means. The introductory chapter discusses and evaluates different theoretical approaches to the question, and the eight articles by leading scholars in the field offer a multiplicity of methodological and theoretical approaches to the description and interpretation of social roles as expressed in a variety of texts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. While the specific period covered is Late Modern English, the theoretical insights offered will be of interest to any linguist interested in sociolinguistics, pragmatics and the history of English, as well as scholars in the social sciences and social history interested in the concept and realisation of roles.
"Frightened by a Word"
"Central to this analysis is the issue of subjectivity, of who sees what, how, and why. In its examination of three novels by Shirley Jackson - Hangsaman (1951), The Haunting of Hill House (1959), and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) - this study draws on theories of performativity and subjectivity as put forward by feminism/queer theory and, in particular, by Judith Butler. Central to this investigation is how these texts repeat and, simultaneously, fail to repeat literary conventions linking lesbian and Gothic, as well as how that repetition, and its failure, affect overall interpretation."--BOOK JACKET.
Gender-related Terms in English Depositions, Examinations and Journals, 1670-1720
"The study shows that region of origin and referent gender influence how gender-related terms are distributed, reflecting a difference in social structure between England and New England, and also a difference in the qualities that were perceived as important to mention when describing men and women respectively. Referent gender was also shown to influence the connotative values of adjectives used in that positive adjectives occur more often with male referents, while negative adjectives occur more often in descriptions of women."--BOOK JACKET.
From Boats to Board Feet
Gustaf Fredrik Johannson (later Fred Wilson) was born 27 February 1842 in Stora Karr, Sweden. His parents were Johan Henrik Olsson and Christina Elisabeth Andreasdotter. He married Charlotta Louise Stryker in 1879 in The Dalles, Oregon. He died in1924 in Yuba City, California.
A Larson/Johnson Family of East Union, Minnesota
Ancestors, relatives, and descendants of the grandparents of the author's mother-in-law. Doris Mildred Florence Larson was born in 1900 in Morrison County, Minnesota, the daughter of August and Nilla Johnson Larson. She married Ray Hamilton Kitts (1899-1976) in 1924 at Redwood City, California. She died in 1988 at Bend, Oregon. Descendants live in Oregon and elsewhere. Ancestors and relatives lived in Sweden, Minnesota, Montana and throughout the United States.
