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Jane Austen (1775-1817)
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Jane Austen's language
In
her novels Jane Austen describes a small world of three or four country
families, and her art of characterization is highly praised by critics.
There are slight differences between her English and that of today.
Phillipps (1970:11) notes that
“Part
of the fascination of Jane Austen’s English is the way in which it
differs, in slight and sometimes barely definable, but nevertheless
unmistakable ways from our own”.
According to Page, “More
than any earlier novelist, Richardson excepted, Jane Austen uses
dialogue not as an occasional diversion but as a major resource for
conducting the business of her fiction”
(1972:115).
correspondence
language
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Chapman, R. W. 1933. “Miss
Austen’s English”.
Appendix to Sense and
Sensibility, 3rd ed. by the same author. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. 388-421.
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Hough, Graham. 1970. “Narrative
and Dialogue in Jane Austen”.
Critical Quarterly 12. 201-29.
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Matsutani, Midori.
1990. “Characterization
in Mansfield Park: with Special Reference to Fanny Price”.
ERA (Biannual
Publication of the English
Research Association of Hiroshima, Department of English, Hiroshima
University) New Series 8-1. 24-50.
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Matsutani, Midori.
1991. “Expanded
Forms of Some Stative Verbs in Jane Austen’s Novels”.
ERA (Biannual
Publication of the English
Research Association of Hiroshima, Department of English, Hiroshima
University) New Series 9-1. 19-37.
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Matsutani, Midori.
1992.
“Language
and Irony in Jane Austen’s Emma”.
ERA (Biannual
Publication of the English
Research Association of Hiroshima, Department of English, Hiroshima
University) New Series 10-1. 25-37.
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Matsutani, Midori.
1993. “Jane
Austen’s Use of Modal Auxiliaries: with Special Reference to Must
and Can”.
In: Modern English Association (ed.), Aspects of Modern English
(The 10th Anniversary Publication of Modern English Association of
Japan). Tokyo: Eichosha. 548-60.
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Matsutani, Midori.
1995. “Jane
Austen’s Use of Must in Combination with Other Auxiliaries”.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature (Annual
Publication of the English
Literary Association of Hiroshima University) 40. 20-28.
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Matsutani, Midori.
1998. “Expanded
Forms in Jane Austen’s Novels: with Special Reference to Verbs of
Mental Process”.
In: Masahiko Kannno, Gregory K. Jember, and Yoshiyuki Nakao (eds.),
A Love of Words: English Philological Studies in Honour of Akira
Wada. Tokyo: Eihōsha. 267-84.
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Matsutani, Midori.
2001. “Language
Expressing Modality in Jane Austen’s Novels: With Special Reference
to Auxiliaries and Adverbs”.
In: Yoshiyuki Nakao and Akiyuki Jimura (eds.), Originality and
Adventure: Essays on English Language and Literature in Honour of
Masahiko Kanno. Tokyo: Eihōsha. 145-58.
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Page, Norman. 1972. The Language of Jane Austen. Oxford:
Basil Blackwell.
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Page, Norman. 1986. “Jane
Austen’s Language”.
In: J. David Grey.(ed.) The Jane Austen Handbook. London: The
Athlone Press. 261-70.
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Phillipps, K. C. 1970. Jane Austen’s English. London: André
Deutsch.
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Raybould, Edith. 1957. “Of
Jane Austen’s Use of Expanded Verbal Forms”.
In: S. Korninger (ed.), Studies in English Language and
Literature Presented to Professor K. Brunner. Vienna: Wilhelm
Braumüller. 175-90.
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Stokes, Myra. 1991. The Language of Jane Austen: A Study of Some
Aspects of her Vocabulary. Basingstoke etc.: Macmillan
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