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  1. 1. The Best Foot Forward : Self-Presentation and the Creation of Respectability Through Job Advertisements in the Public Press, 1800

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Författare :Lindroth Caroline; [2016]
    Nyckelord :workers; labour force; servants; respectability; power relations; advertisements; the public sphere; newspapers; The Times; self-presentation; social hierarchy; discourse; linguistic analysis;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates how power relations were negotiated and expressed through the use of certain linguistic practices in a public context. More specifically, it looks closer at how job applicants presented themselves publically through newspaper advertisements and which discursive codes they made use of to portray themselves as reputable, desirable employees that fit into the bourgeois concept of respectability. LÄS MER