Peikola / Skaffari / Tanskanen Instructional Writing in English

Studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-9048-9
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 189, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language. Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied represent procedural and behavioural discourse in a variety of genres. The primary texts, from Ælfric’s homilies to medieval cooking recipes to seventeenth-century American conduct literature to present-day language textbooks, display a variety of linguistic devices typical of instruction. The materials nonetheless differ with respect to the explicitness of their instructive purpose. Bringing together a broad range of instructional writing from the Old, Middle and Modern English periods, this collection celebrates the sixtieth birthday of Risto Hiltunen, who has successfully combined discourse-linguistic approaches with the history of English in his research, and inspired the colleagues and former students contributing to this volume.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peikola, Matti

Skaffari, Janne

Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
In honour of Risto Hiltunen
Bruce Mitchell
Tabula gratulatoria
Approaching instructional writing in English
Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Janne Skaffari and Matti Peikola
Teaching by stories: Ælfric's instructive narratives
Brita Wårvik
The WOMANual: Ancrene Wisse on instruction
Janne Skaffari
Vague language in the medieval recipes of the Forme of Cury
Ruth Carroll
Instructional aspects of the calendar in later medieval England, with special reference to The John Rylands University Library MS English 80
Matti Peikola
Authority and instruction in two sixteenth-century medical dialogues
Irma Taavitsainen
"Proper to their sex": Letter-writing instruction and epistolary model dialogues in Henry Care's The Female Secretary
Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
(Un)Becoming conduct: Cotton Mather's Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion and the Salem witchcraft crisis
Kathleen L. Doty
"Instruction with delight": The narrator's voice in John Newbery's early English children's books
Lydia Kokkola
Doing what the doctor said: Constructing an authoritative voice in William Buchan's Domestic Medicine
Ellen Valle
Instructional writing on English: What guides the textbook writer?
Paivi Pietila, Leena Taanila-Hall and Sonja Vainio
Index