Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing

Exploring Bess of Hardwick's Manuscript Letters

AvImogen Marcus

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

This book uses a corpus of manuscript letters from Bess of Hardwick to investigate how linguistic features characteristic of spoken communication function within early modern epistolary prose.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-09-11
Mått:148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt:486 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics
Antal sidor:357
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319881515

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Mer om författaren

Imogen Marcus is Lecturer in English Language at Edge Hill University, UK. She has published on the scribal profiling of early modern English letters, linguistic borrowing from French into English during the Middle English period and the interface between historical semantics and lexicography. She has also participated in the creation of two historical thesauruses.

Recensioner i media

“With the wealth of detail covered, the volume is not necessarily an easy read. The text is richly illustrated by examples ... . The book can be recommended to anyone who is seriously interested in the study of Early Modern English ... .” (Terttu Nevalainen, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Vol. 22 (1), 2021)

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Early Modern English manuscript letters as data: distinguishing between holograph and scribal writing.- Chapter 3: Prose structure.- Chapter 4: Prose structure in its social context.- Chapter 5: Lexical bundles.- Chapter 6: Vocatives.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.