Rewriting the world, rewriting the body

Waddington, Raymond B.

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“…Third, gender issues began to interact strongly with matters of linguistic correctness. The Aristotelian conceptualisation of men and women as belonging to one and the same biological sex was, in the early 18th century, replaced by a two-sex theory which views males and females as ontologically different creatures (Waddington, 2000: 293ff. ; Wolf, 2003: 125, 144).…”

Section: Female Speech Jane Austen and Quitementioning

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‘I quite detest the man’: Degree adverbs, female language and Jane Austen

González-Díaz

2014

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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Burrows’ (1987) stylometric analysis of Austen’s novels associates quite with ‘the speech of the vulgarians, especially the women who predominate among them’. Through a corpus-based analysis, this article takes further Burrows’ (1987) claims by scrutinizing the socio-stylistic mappings between characters and functions of quite in Austen. The results indicate that gender (rather than vulgarity) is the main factor determining the socio-stylistic variation of quite in Austen’s novels. More generally, the study contributes to a better understanding of Jane Austen’s practices of linguistic gendering. Recent literary criticism has commented on Austen’s stylistic manipulations aimed at challenging 18th-century stereotypes of women’s language (Michaelson, 2002: 62–63). The corpus-based study provided in this article can be taken as a concrete example of how such manipulations work at the linguistic level. It suggests that Austen may have drawn on 18th-century stereotypes of ‘female’ language for the stylistic stratification of quite in her novels, although introducing functional and grammatical variations that allow for subtle differentiations across ‘female’ idiolects.

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Section: Female Speech Jane Austen and Quitementioning

confidence: 99%

‘I quite detest the man’: Degree adverbs, female language and Jane Austen

González-Díaz

2014

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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Rewriting the world, rewriting the body

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‘I quite detest the man’: Degree adverbs, female language and Jane Austen

‘I quite detest the man’: Degree adverbs, female language and Jane Austen

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