Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics (NAEHL)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- connectives
- structuring devices in text
- speech and writing
- standardization in English
- grammar of spoken English
- early modern english
- renaissance literature
- bess of hardwick
- manuscript letters
- scribal profiling
- discourse analysis
- holographic writing
- vocatives
- Language standardization
- orality
- the history of English
- historical semantics
- lexicography
- historical sociolinguistics
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“This book brilliantly advances research on the relation between spoken and written language in the Early Modern English period. Its fine-grained analysis of previously unedited data provides a fresh outlook on historical discourse analysis, combined with rigorous philological investigation. Imogen Marcus critically engages with current theoretical models as much as with palaeographic analysis to arrive at innovative results on topics such as sentence boundaries, lexical bundles and vocatives. The book provides a highly readable account that will become a crucial reference in the whole field of studies on Early Modern English.” (Gabriella Mazzon, University of Innsbruck, Austria)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing
Book Subtitle: Exploring Bess of Hardwick's Manuscript Letters
Authors: Imogen Marcus
Series Title: New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66008-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66007-3Published: 30 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88151-5Published: 11 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66008-0Published: 20 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-4056
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 357
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Historical Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Language Change