Agatha Christie and the social function of the detective fiction of the Golden Age – A linguistic analysis

Authors

  • John DOUTHWAITE

Keywords:

Agatha Christie, detective fiction, social function

Abstract

Section 1 laid the theoretical foundations to the analysis of Christie’s detective fiction. We now turn to the linguistic analysis of four of her novels to prove the theoretical claims made in the first section of this paper. 

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Published

2020-06-11

Issue

No. 18 (2013): Lingua e Diritto. La Lingua della Legge, la Legge nella Lingua - Studi in onore di Giuseppina Piccardo

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