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1 online resource. |
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Linguistic Approaches to Literature ; v. 25
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Linguistic approaches to literature.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Linguistics and Literary History; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; References; Enregistering the North: The dialect of Mendicus in William Bullein's Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence; 1. Introduction: Literary dialect and enregisterment; 2. William Bullein and the dialogue; 3. Sixteenth-century views of the north and northern English; 4. Bullein's representation of Northumberland and Northumbrian dialect; 4.1 Textual references; 4.2 Dialect and lexis; 4.3 Dialect and phonology; 5. Conclusion; References. |
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Appendix 1: Transcription of extract from Bullein's DialogueThe origin and development of the iffy-an(d) conjunction; 1. Introduction; 2. The iffy-an(d) conjunction in the history of the English language; 3. The variation between conditional if and and in selected Middle English texts; 4. The occurrence of conditional and in other languages; 5. The rise and fall of the iffy-an(d) -- conclusions; References; From ornament to armament: The epistolary rhetoric of Lady Elizabeth Tudor; 1. Introduction; 2. Style and rhetoric; 3. Elizabeth's autograph letters: 1544-1556. |
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4. Letter One: 31 December 1544, to Queen Katherine Parr5. Letter Two: 17 March 1554 to Queen Mary I; 6. Conclusion; References; Appendix; Letter One; Letter Two; Borrowing and copy: A philological approach to Early Modern English lexicology; 1. Lexical expansion and the development of the literary language in Early Modern English lexicology; 2. The tools available for tracing the lexical history of Early Modern English; 3. A test case: The semantic field "sweet"; 4. A detailed investigation of douce and dulce; 5. Conclusions; References; Dictionaries, reference works, and text collections. |
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Decoding the parentheses in Shakespeare's Coriolanus: A functionalist approach1. Introduction; 2. Previous studies of parentheses; 3. Parentheses: A functionalist approach; 4. Parentheses in Coriolanus; 4.1 Parentheses as extra information; 4.2 Parentheses as interpersonal mediation; 4.3 Parentheses as metalinguistic markers; 5. Conclusion; References; The first person in fiction of the 1790s; 1. Introduction; 2. The form of first-person narrative; 3. Memoirs of Emma Courtney: Character and necessity; 4. Desmond: Sympathetic awareness; 5. Conclusion; References. |
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"Worth a moment's notice": Jane Austen and conversational parentheticals1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 3. Kinesic parentheticals: An analysis; 3.1 General linguistic analysis; 3.2 Character analysis; 3.3 Summary of findings; 4. Round brackets and kinesic parentheticals: A discussion; 5. Conclusion; References; Jane Austen and the prescriptivists; 1. Jane Austen in an age of linguistic flux; 2. Austen and grammatical rules; 3. Austen and metalanguage; 4. Austen and dialect; 5. Conclusion; References; Dismantling narrative modes: Authorial revisions in the opening of Mrs Dalloway. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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English language -- History.
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English language. |
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History. |
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English language -- Style.
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English language -- Style. |
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Literature and history.
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Literature and history. |
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Historical linguistics.
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Historical linguistics. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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| Added Author |
Auer, Anita, 1975- editor.
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González-Díaz, Victorina, editor.
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Hodson, Jane, 1972- editor.
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Sotirova, Violeta, editor.
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Adamson, Sylvia, honouree.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Linguistics and literary history. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016] 9789027234148 (DLC) 2016019596 |
| ISBN |
9789027266682 (pdf) |
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9027266689 (pdf) |
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9789027234148 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9027234140 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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