Quoting Speech in Early English

AvColette Moore

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Before quotation marks became widespread convention, English texts were organized more fluidly, employing varying lexical and textual strategies for marking represented discourse. When we add our present-day quotation marks to editions of Middle English texts, we also overlay our modern interpretation of speech representation, with its expectations of faithful reporting and carefully delineated voices. In doing so, we mask the less-determined nature of early speech marking, and obscure the ways that its plasticity functions as a narrative and stylistic tool. This book provides the first full study of speech representation in pre-modern English. Studying the pragmatic and discourse strategies of English texts from 1350-1600 is essential to reading Middle English works and to understanding the cultural assumptions implicit in the production of early written texts.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-04-17
Mått:152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt:320 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in English Language
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107673533

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Colette Moore is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of Washington.

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'Moore's study considers the implications of the lack of conventional ways for marking reported speech in late Middle English … this book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars from different fields.' Carla Suhr, Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Methods of marking speech; 2. Interpreting reported speech: defamation depositions, sermons, chronicles; 3. Reported speech in literary texts: stylistic implications; Conclusion: pragmatic palimpsests; Appendices; Works cited; Index.

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