Communicating Early English Manuscripts

Päivi Pahta (Curatore)

Andreas H. Jucker (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2011

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.

• Curatore: Päivi Pahta, Andreas H. Jucker
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Studies in English Language
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 312 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 159 mm
• Peso: 630 gr.
• EAN: 9780521193290

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