1. Preface and acknowledgements; 2. List of tables, figures, and maps; 3. 1. Introduction; 4. 1.1 Aims and scope; 5. 1.2 Methodological framework; 6. 1.3 Presentation of corpus examples; 7. 1.4 Outline of the study; 8. 2. Corpus and genre overview; 9. 2.1 Introduction; 10. 2.2 A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560-1760 (CED); 11. 2.3 The corpus used for the present study; 12. 2.4 The genres investigated; 13. 2.5 Summary; 14. 3. Data classification; 15. 3.1 Introduction; 16. 3.2 The classification system for the parameters of sex, age, and rank; 17. 3.3 Summary; 18. 4. Previous research on thou and you in Early Modern English; 19. 4.1 Introduction and historical background; 20. 4.2 Theoretical approaches to the study of pronoun usage; 21. 4.3 Genre studies of pronoun usage; 22. 4.4 Thou and you in contemporaneous grammars; 23. 4.5 The development of address systems in Early Modern European languages; 24. 4.6 Summary; 25. 5. Thou and you in Trials 1560-1760; 26. 5.1 Introduction; 27. 5.2 The Trials sub-corpus; 28. 5.3 The macro-analysis; 29. 5.4 The micro-analysis: Pronoun usage in the Trials sub-corpus; 30. 5.5 Summary; 31. 6. Thou and you in Depositions 1560-1760; 32. 6.1 Introduction; 33. 6.2 The Depositions sub-corpus; 34. 6.3 The macro-analysis; 35. 6.4 The micro-analysis: Pronoun usage in the Depositions sub-corpus; 36. 7. Thou and you in Drama Comedy 1560-1760; 37. 7.1 Introduction; 38. 7.2 The Drama Comedy sub-corpus; 39. 7.3 The macro-analysis; 40. 7.4 The micro-analysis: Pronoun usage in the Drama Comedy sub-corpus; 41. 8. The role of selected linguistic factors in thou and you usage; 42. 8.1 Introduction; 43. 8.2 Is there evidence of grammatical conditioning of thou and you usage?; 44. 8.3 Pronoun forms and their syntactic function; 45. 9. Summary and conclusions; 46. 9.1 Overview of the aims and hypotheses; 47. 9.2 Summary of findings for the three genres; 48. 9.3 Factors influencing pronoun usage; 49. 9.4 Were the hypotheses confirmed?; 50. 9.5 Suggestions for further research; 51. Appendix; 52. References; 53. Index
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