The Density of Latinate Words in the Speeches of Jane Austen's Characters.
English has two main sources for words: German and Latin. Distinct from each other, they have polarized our language into high diction and low (‘diglossia’). Latinate words denote the intellectual world; Germanic words, the physical. Latinate words are indicators of status and education. Austen pain...
| Publicado en: | Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 389 - 402 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Nov2001
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