Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England
Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560-1760 (ETED)
Published on 5. October 2011
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-90-272-1180-4 (ISBN)
Description
Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England examines various aspects of the witness depositions comprising An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560-1760 (ETED) on the accompanying CD-ROM.
ETED combines modern corpus linguistic methodology and editorial theory, and makes available faithful transcriptions of 905 depositions drawn from manuscripts from different areas of early modern England. The depositions, which total c. 267,000 words, cover testimony by men and women of different ages and social strata. In order to cater to a variety of uses and users, the ETED CD-ROM provides the depositions in five electronic formats (XML, resolved XML, HTML, TXT and PDF), as well as a data retrieval program and a number of support files.
The book explores the genre, the socio-historical and legal background, and the language of depositions. Together with the book, ETED constitutes a significant resource for researchers of corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics and historical sociolinguistics, and for social and legal historians.
ETED combines modern corpus linguistic methodology and editorial theory, and makes available faithful transcriptions of 905 depositions drawn from manuscripts from different areas of early modern England. The depositions, which total c. 267,000 words, cover testimony by men and women of different ages and social strata. In order to cater to a variety of uses and users, the ETED CD-ROM provides the depositions in five electronic formats (XML, resolved XML, HTML, TXT and PDF), as well as a data retrieval program and a number of support files.
The book explores the genre, the socio-historical and legal background, and the language of depositions. Together with the book, ETED constitutes a significant resource for researchers of corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics and historical sociolinguistics, and for social and legal historians.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
(Incl. CD-ROM)
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
855 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-1180-4 (9789027211804)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
1. Acknowledgements; 2. List of manuscript images on the ETED CD; 3. List of figures, maps and tables; 4. 1. Introduction (by Kyto, Merja); 5. 2. Genre characteristics (by Grund, Peter J.); 6. 3. Historical context (by Walker, Terry); 7. 4. Legal background (by Walker, Terry); 8. 5. Scribes and scribal practices (by Grund, Peter J.); 9. 6. The languages of the depositions (by Grund, Peter J.); 10. 7. Linguistic variation and change in the depositions (by Walker, Terry); 11. 8. ETED: Distribution versions, editorial principles, and viewing and search options (by Kyto, Merja); 12. 9. Conclusion (by Kyto, Merja); 13. Glossary (by Grund, Peter J.); 14. Appendix 1. Word counts; 15. Appendix 2. Chronology of historical events; 16. Appendix 3. Hyphens; 17. Appendix 4. Manuscript references; 18. References; 19. Name index; 20. Subject index