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27 - Shakespeare’s Forms of Address

from Part III - Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Penny Freedman
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Keywords

affective meaningcollocationdiscourse analysisdyadhonorificidiolectmarked and unmarked formspragmatic competencepronouns (vocative and oblique)speech actstransgressive languagetu and vousT-V distinction
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 192 - 198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Further reading

Freedman, Penny. Power and Passion in Shakespeare’s Pronouns: Interrogating ‘you’ and ‘thou.’ Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.Google Scholar
Lass, Roger, ed. The Cambridge History of the English Language. Vol. 3: 1476–1776. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.Google Scholar

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