Early Modern English Dialogues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Modern English Dialogues write by Jonathan Culpeper. This book was released on 2010-02-18. Early Modern English Dialogues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses speech-related genres in Early Modern English, providing ideas of what spoken interaction in earlier times might have been like.
Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues
Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues write by Terry Walker. This book was released on 2007. Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a corpus-based study examining thou and you in three speech-related genres from 15601760, a crucial period in the history of second person singular pronouns, spanning the time from when you became dominant to when thou became all but obsolete. The study embraces the fields of corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and historical sociolinguistics. Using data drawn from the recently released A Corpus of English Dialogues 15601760 and manuscript material, the aim is to ascertain which extra-linguistic and linguistic factors highlighted by previous research appear particularly relevant in the selection and relative distribution of thou and you. Previous research on thou and you has tended to concentrate on Drama and/or been primarily qualitative in nature. Depositions in particular have hitherto received very little attention. This book is intended to help fill a gap in the literature by presenting an in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis of pronoun usage in Trials, Depositions, and, for comparative purposes, Drama Comedy.
Discourse Markers in Early Modern English
Discourse Markers in Early Modern English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discourse Markers in Early Modern English write by Ursula Lutzky. This book was released on 2012. Discourse Markers in Early Modern English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry, well and why through the analysis of three corpora (A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760, the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English). By combining both quantitative and qualitative approaches in the study of pragmatic markers, innovative findings are reached about their distribution throughout the period 1500-1760, their attestation in different speech-related text types as well as similarities and differences in their functions. Additionally, this work engages in a sociopragmatic study, based on the sociopragmatically annotated Drama Corpus of almost a quarter of a million words, to enhance our understanding about their use by characters of different social status and gender. This volume therefore constitutes an essential piece of the puzzle in our attempt to gain a full picture of discourse marker use.
Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues
Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues write by Terry Walker. This book was released on 2007-05-15. Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a corpus-based study examining thou and you in three speech-related genres from 1560–1760, a crucial period in the history of second person singular pronouns, spanning the time from when you became dominant to when thou became all but obsolete. The study embraces the fields of corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and historical sociolinguistics. Using data drawn from the recently released A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 and manuscript material, the aim is to ascertain which extra-linguistic and linguistic factors highlighted by previous research appear particularly relevant in the selection and relative distribution of thou and you. Previous research on thou and you has tended to concentrate on Drama and/or been primarily qualitative in nature. Depositions in particular have hitherto received very little attention. This book is intended to help fill a gap in the literature by presenting an in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis of pronoun usage in Trials, Depositions, and, for comparative purposes, Drama Comedy.
Twins in Early Modern English Drama and Shakespeare
Twins in Early Modern English Drama and Shakespeare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twins in Early Modern English Drama and Shakespeare write by Daisy Murray. This book was released on 2017-01-06. Twins in Early Modern English Drama and Shakespeare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume investigates the early modern understanding of twinship through new readings of plays, informed by discussions of twins appearing in such literature as anatomy tracts, midwifery manuals, monstrous birth broadsides, and chapbooks. The book contextualizes such dramatic representations of twinship, investigating contemporary discussions about twins in medical and popular literature and how such dialogues resonate with the twin characters appearing on the early modern stage. Garofalo demonstrates that, in this period, twin births were viewed as biologically aberrant and, because of this classification, authors frequently attempt to explain the phenomenon in ways which call into question the moral and constitutional standing of both the parents and the twins themselves. In line with current critical studies on pregnancy and the female body, discussions of twin births reveal a distrust of the mother and the processes surrounding twin conception; however, a corresponding suspicion of twins also emerges, which monstrous birth pamphlets exemplify. This book analyzes the representation of twins in early modern drama in light of this information, moving from tragedies through to comedies. This progression demonstrates how the dramatic potential inherent in the early modern understanding of twinship is capitalized on by playwrights, as negative ideas about twins can be seen transitioning into tragic and tragicomic depictions of twinship. However, by building toward a positive, comic representation of twins, the work additionally suggests an alternate interpretation of twinship in this period, which appreciates and celebrates twins because of their difference. The volume will be of interest to those studying Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in relation to the History of Emotions, the Body, and the Medical Humanities.
