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6. Thou was retained in what other forms in the 16/17th century?

  • Love poetry and Yorkshire and Lancashire dialect
  • London inner city and the South East of the UK
  • Formal letters and in Northern Scotland, mainly in rural areas

7. You was associated with?

  • Respect/ Formality, however it could show coldness, distance and emotion
  • Spoken language
  • Those who were poorer and uneducated

8. Thou had become more what in the 1600's?

  • Bceame more common in spoken langauge
  • Low frequency and mainly used in written langauge like Shakespeare
  • Frequency had remained the same

9. The pronoun 'You' was a preffered option of who in the Middle English period?

  • It was only used by men
  • The Royal court
  • Middle class
  • ''Commmoners''

10. Pragmatic choice of pronouns showed what?

  • A persons class
  • A persons gender
  • A persons regional variation
  • A persons age

11. What retained thou and was not affected by sociolinguistic and pragmatic changes?

  • Shop signs
  • Biblical Langauge
  • Formal letters
  • The Courts use of language

12. What does morphological form reflect?

  • Gender influences
  • The social factors of the time
  • The relationships between speakers

13. Choices of using 'you' or 'thou' were made according to?

  • The swap between you and thou were only made from written langauge to spoken language
  • Sensistivity to context and terms of address, like today Sir/Madam etc..
  • Your age