ISBN:
9783319660080
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XVIII, 357 p. 16 illus., 10 illus. in color, online resource)
Series Statement:
New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Series Statement:
Social Sciences
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Erscheint auch als
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Printed edition
Keywords:
Literature, Modern
;
Historical linguistics
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Discourse analysis
;
Pragmatics
;
Linguistic change
;
Linguistics
Abstract:
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. Using these letters as a primary data source with reference to other epistolary materials from the early modern period (1500-1750), the author examines them in a unique and systematic way. The book is the first of its kind to combine a replicable scribal profiling technique, used to identify holograph and scribal handwriting within the letters, with innovative analyses of the language they contain. Furthermore, by adopting a discourse-analytic approach to the language and making reference to the socio-historical context of language use, the book provides an alternative perspective to the one often presented in traditional historical accounts of English. This volume will appeal to students and scholars of early modern English and historical linguistics
Abstract:
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
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-66008-0
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