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| Title | Late Modern English language use across gender and class: a historical sociolinguistic investigation |
| Author | Marina BERTS |
| Director of thesis | Prof. Anita Auer, English Department, UNIL |
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| Summary of thesis | Through the analysis of a corpus of letters written by both women and men from all social classes, I will investigate the influence of gender and class on the English (written) language throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as the factors that played a central role in the development of language use in the Late Modern English period. |
| Status | beginning |
| Administrative delay for the defence | Probably 2028 or 2029 |
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