The Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing: Exploring Bess of Hardwick's Manuscript Letters

Author:   Imogen Marcus
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2018 ed.
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9783319881515


Pages:   357
Publication Date:   11 September 2018
Format:   Paperback
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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.

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Author:   Imogen Marcus
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2018 ed.
Weight:   0.491kg
ISBN:  

9783319881515


ISBN 10:   3319881515
Pages:   357
Publication Date:   11 September 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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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)


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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.

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