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First Person Plural in Letters to the Editor in Two Post-Colonial Contexts
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2019)
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Let Us Plead With Our Government: Rights, Responsibilities, and the First-Person Plural in Letters to the Editor in Sri Lankan and Kenyan Englishes
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2018)
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Responsibility in Letters to the Editor in Sri Lankan and Kenyan Englishes
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2018)
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Songs and Memories for Expanding Vocabulary and Grammar
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2017)
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Adverbial Clauses and Speaker and Interlocutor Gender in Shakespeare’s Plays
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2017)
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This study draws on previous findings regarding adverbial clauses in relation to speaker and interlocutor gender in a corpus of current actual speaker data. Our aim is to examine those same relations in a corpus of Shakespeare’s comedies and histories. Mondorf (2004) investigated four types of adverbial clauses in a corpus of modern speech and found that the women used more causal, conditional and purpose clauses than the men, while the men used more concessive clauses. Mondorf’s explanation for this difference is that women use the three clause types that mitigate the speaker’s commitment to the truth of the proposition, while men tend to use more concessives, which strengthen the commitment. She also found that in mixed-gender conversations these trends were generally intensified. However, other analyses have indicated that these patterns do not hold across contexts. Much more research is called for to understand the localized relations among adverbial clause usage, speaker gender and context in particular settings. One question to pursue is whether we can see gendered patterns of adverbial usage in historical varieties of English. Accordingly, in this study we analyse dialogue in Shakespeare’s plays to ascertain whether Mondorf’s findings can be extrapolated to the language of these fictional speakers. The results indicate that Shakespeare generally does not use the adverbial clauses to portray the gender of the characters in ways similar to those of actual, modern speakers. Only small differences are found, regarding purpose clauses in the histories and conditional clauses in the comedies. The analysis indicates that female and male characters speak very similarly with regard to syntax, and adverbial clauses contribute to the construction of characters in very localized contexts.
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adverbal; Applied Linguistics; Discourse and Text Linguistics; Language; Linguistics; Literature and Language; Shakespeare
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URL: https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6141 https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7368&context=etsu-works
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Adverbial Clause Usage and Gender in English, Spanish, and French
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2016)
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Listen and Complete: Understanding One-Liners
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2016)
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Vocabulary Concept Card Game: Reviewing Vocabulary With Applied Concepts
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2015)
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Attitudes to Storytelling among Adult ESL Learners
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2014)
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English Translations of the Reading Passages in James W. Gair & W. S. Karunatilaka
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2014)
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Adverbial Clauses and Gender in English and Spanish
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2014)
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Gender-Linked Variation Across Languages
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In: ETSU Authors Bookshelf (2013)
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Review Of Politeness and Culture in Second Language Acquisition
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2013)
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Topic Introduction Elements in Single-Gender and Mixed-Gender Social Club Business Meeting in the US
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2013)
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Review of Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2012)
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Inductive Teaching for Oral Skills
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2012)
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Interaction of Task-Induced Involvement Components in Lexical Acquisition
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In: ETSU Faculty Works (2011)
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