Ooh, I'm eagerly looking forward to reading this new book! Hillary Taylor 'revives domination and subordination as objects of inquiry and demonstrates the ways in which language ... reflected, reproduced, and naturalized inequality' in #EarlyModernacademic.oup.com/book/58107

It always interests me how such a manifestly unequal society did away with the 'thou'/'you' distinction. Logically you'd think we'd be at the Japanese or Spanish level of 1st/2nd-person pronouns by now.

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