Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Language practices in the construction of social roles in Late Modern English -- Mr Spectator, identity and social roles in an early eighteenth-century community of practice and the periodical discourse community -- How eighteenth-century book reviewers became language guardians -- "if You think me obstinate I can't help it" -- Reporting and social role construction in eighteenth-century personal correspondence -- Preacher, scholar, brother, friend -- The social space of an eighteenth-century governess -- Building trust through (self-)appraisal in nineteenth-century business correspondence -- Good-natured fellows and poor mothers -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.