Promising Language

Promising LanguageArgues that Victorian legal, linguistic, and cultural attitudes toward promisesespecially promises to marryhad a formative effect on novels of the period. Promising Language explores the linguistic and social ramifications of promising, and specifically promising to marry, in Victorian fiction. The concept of the promise as speech act, as social practice and legal contract, and as structural principle and topos lies at the intersection of several

and theological dispute among Muslims in Bangladesh and Pakistan

part two provides a sociological analysis of social classes and their evolution over centuries

the focus in the veterinary profession has shifted from treatment of acutely diseased animals to more proactive management

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All parents want to see their child become a socially and emotionally healthy adult

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The Twelfth Hour is a humorous tale of romance and desire from Ada Leverson

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and the role of public intellectuals in times of national crisis