Second Person Pronouns in Late Elizabethan and Jacobean English
Abstract
The general criteria determining the choice of thou or you as the mode of direct address in polite sixteenth- and seventeenth-century usage are adequately appreciated. However, in this period of transition from bimodal to monomodal usage, a certain amount of flexibility, ambiguity, and uncertainty as to the social and emotional implication of the choice of one or the other is apparent. Illustrations are drawn from a number of Elizabethan and Jacobean writers, with particular emphasis on Shakespeare.
Published
1983-06-06
How to Cite
Jones, G. (1983). Second Person Pronouns in Late Elizabethan and Jacobean English. Papers from the Annual Meetings of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association (PAMAPLA) ACTES DES COLLOQUES ANNUELS DE L’ASSOCIATION DE LINGUISTIQUE DES PROVINCES ATLANTIQUES (ACAALPA)., 6, 35–44. Retrieved from https://conferences.lib.unb.ca/index.php/pamapla/article/view/491
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Section
English Studies/Etudes Anglaise