Quoting Speech in Early English
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Author
Publication
2011 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Language
English
Word Count
54,000 words, Guess
Page Count
216 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780521199087
- ISBN-100521199085
- OCLC Control Number665137576
- Better World Books9780521199087
- Open LibraryOL25210114M
Classifications
- DDC427/.02
- LCCP302.814 .M66 2011
Description
"Before quotation marks became widespread convention, English texts were organized more fluidly, employing varying lexical and textual strategies for marking represented discourse. When we add our present-day quotation marks to editions of Middle English texts, we also overlay our modern interpretation of speech representation, with its expectations of faithful reporting and carefully delineated voices. In doing so, we mask the less-determined nature of early speech marking, and obscure the ways that its plasticity functions as a narrative and stylistic tool. This book provides the first full study of speech representation in pre-modern English. Studying the pragmatic and discourse strategies of English texts from 1350-1600 is essential to reading Middle English works and to understanding the cultural assumptions implicit in the production of early written texts"--
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Series Statement
- Studies in English Language
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