The Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing

Exploring Bess of Hardwick's Manuscript Letters
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-66007-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 357 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 5862 g

Reihe: New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics

Provides a fresh perspective on debates surrounding linguistic change in the Early Modern Period
Problematizes existing research about the evolution of prose writing and challenges assumptions about the process of standardization in English
Takes a discourse-analytic approach to prose structure that takes orality manifested in textual material into account
Accounts for the complex nature of historical data sources by considering Bess of Hardwick's use of scribes

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marcus, Imogen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.