The Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing Exploring Bess of Hardwick's Manuscript Letters /

• Main Author: Marcus, Imogen (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics
• Subjects: Historical linguistics.; Discourse analysis.; Pragmatics.; Sociolinguistics.; Literature, Modern.; Linguistic change.; Historical Linguistics.; Discourse Analysis.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Language Change.

This book uses a corpus of manuscript letters from Bess of Hardwick to investigate how linguistic features characteristic of spoken communication function within early modern epistolary prose. Using these letters as a primary data source with reference to other epistolary materials from the early mo...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Early Modern English manuscript letters as data: distinguishing between holograph and scribal writing
• Chapter 3: Prose structure
• Chapter 4: Prose structure in its social context
• Chapter 5: Lexical bundles
• Chapter 6: Vocatives
• Chapter 7: Conclusion.