id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 2227mp50n3r Jonathan Davis-Secord Theodcwidas: Compound Words, Language, and Social Context in Early English Literature 2007 .txt text/plain 216 6 36 This dissertation explores the ways that Old and early Middle English texts use compound words within their linguistic and social contexts, combining a detailed study of linguistic and rhetorical phenomena with an informed approach to culture and language based on Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic theories of language. These texts are chosen in order to explore the characteristics of compound words in texts of different time periods as well as in different discourses. cache/2227mp50n3r.txt txt/2227mp50n3r.txt