Communicating Early English Manuscripts - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 052119329X ISBN 13: 9780521193290

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Riassunto

In an obvious way, manuscripts communicate. This is the first book to focus on the communicative aspects of English manuscripts from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. It investigates how the authors and scribes of these manuscripts communicated with their audiences, how the characters depicted in these manuscripts communicate with each other, and how the manuscripts communicate with scholars and audiences in the 21st century. It covers a wide variety of genres, such as stories, scientific writing, witchcraft records, personal letters, war correspondence, courtroom records, and plays. The volume demonstrates how these handwritten texts can be used to analyse the history of language as communication between individuals and groups, and discusses the challenges these documents present to present-day scholars. It is unique in bringing together studies by distinguished international experts examining primary handwritten sources from the perspectives of several fields, including historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics and literary scholarship.

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Descrizione del libro:

The first volume to focus on the communicative aspects of English manuscripts from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. It demonstrates how these handwritten texts can be used to analyse the history of language as communication between individuals and groups, and discusses the challenges these documents present to present-day scholars.

L'autore:

Päivi Pahta is Professor of English Philology in the School of Modern Languages and Translation Studies at the University of Tampere.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 052119329X
• ISBN 13: 9780521193290
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 312
• Redattore: Pahta Päivi, Jucker Andreas H.