Communicating Early English Manuscripts (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in English Language
Release date:	2011
First published:	March 2011
Editors:	Paivi Pahta • Andreas H Jucker
Dimensions:	234 x 159 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	312
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-19329-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General
LSN:	0-521-19329-X
Barcode:	9780521193290

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