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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