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
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"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)
Reihe
Auflage
Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2018 ed.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Springer International Publishing
Zielgruppe
Illustrationen
10
6 s/w Abbildungen, 10 farbige Abbildungen
XVIII, 357 p. 16 illus., 10 illus. in color.
Maße
Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 148 mm
Dicke: 21 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-3-319-88151-5 (9783319881515)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-66008-0
Schweitzer Klassifikation
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.
