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LANGUAGE CHANGE IN TERMS OF GENDER IN THE ERA OF EARLY MODERN ENGLISH
JEŽKOVÁ, Lucie
Language and gender has always been a major subject for sociolinguistic discussion. Moreover, the same applies to language change, which is still by some considered to be rather a decay in language than its progress. This thesis aims to investigate the relation between these two areas. Furthermore, it tries to establish the leaders of language changes with regard to gender. Based on the analysis of many sociolinguistic studies, this paper comes up with the hypothesis that women are the leaders of language changes. The process of verifying the hypothesis comprises few selected examples of language changes in the period of Early Modern English, on which is analysed their spread and their initiators. The background for this thesis are the personal letters from the period of Early Modern English.

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