Early Modern English Dialogues: Spoken Interaction As Writing

by Jonathan Culpeper

2021-01-08 08:45:40

Language is largely comprised of face-to-face spoken interaction; however, the method, description and theory of traditional historical accounts of English have been largely based on scholarly and literary writings. Using the Corpus of English Dialog... Read more
Language is largely comprised of face-to-face spoken interaction; however, the method, description and theory of traditional historical accounts of English have been largely based on scholarly and literary writings. Using the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760, in this book Culpeper and Kytö offer a unique account of the linguistic features in several speech-related written genres, comprising trial proceedings, witness depositions, plays, fiction and didactic works. The volume is the first to provide innovative analyses of several neglected written genres, demonstrating how they might be researched, and highlighting the theories which are needed to underpin this research. Through this, the authors are able to create a fascinating insight into what spoken interaction in Early Modern English might have been like, providing an alternative perspective to that often presented in traditional historical accounts of English. Less

Book Details

File size9.02 X 5.98 X 1.02 in
Print pages504
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date July 10, 2014
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781107421158
Jonathan Culpeper is a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University. ...

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