| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 292 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Pragmatics & beyond,
0922-842X ;
new ser., 153
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Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 153.
0922-842X
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
"Written Reliquaries: The Resonance of Orality in Medieval English Texts establishes the linguistic component of orality and oral tradition. The relics it examines are traces of spoken performance, artifacts of linguistic and cultural processes. Seven case studies animate verbal acts of making promises, quoting proverbs, pronouncing curses, speaking gibberish, praying Pater Nosters, invoking saints, and keeping silence. The study of their resonance is enabled by a methodological conjunction of historical pragmatics and oral theory. Insights from oral theory enlighten spoken traditions which in turn may be understood in the larger historical-pragmatic context of linguistic performance. The inquiry ranges across broad as well as narrow planes of reference to trace a complex set of cultural and linguistic interactions. In this way it reconstructs relevant discursive contexts, giving detailed accounts of underlying assumptions, traditions, and conventions. Doing so, the book demonstrates that an integrated methodology not only allows access to oral discourse in both Old English and Middle English but also provides insight into the fluid medieval interchange of literacy and orality."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Written Reliquaries; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Preface; Chapter 1; Reconstructing Spoken Performance in Medieval Texts; A Joint Exploration in Oral Theory and Historical Pragmatics; Part I; Oral Relics in Old English; Chapter 2; Speaking Gibberish; Chapter 3; Praying the Pater Noster; Chapter 4; Invoking Saints; Chapter 5; Keeping Silence; Part II; Oral Relics in Middle English; Chapter 6; Making Promises; Chapter 7; Quoting Proverbs; Chapter 8; Pronouncing Book Curses; Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Notes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dialogue in literature.
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Dialogue in literature. |
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Discourse analysis, Narrative -- Social aspects.
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Discourse analysis, Narrative. |
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Social aspects. |
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English philology -- Middle English, 1100-1500.
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Literature, Medieval. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Arnovick, Leslie K., 1957- Written reliquaries. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2006 (DLC) 2006049945 |
| ISBN |
9789027292841 (electronic book) |
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9027292841 (electronic book) |
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1282154966 |
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9781282154964 |
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902725396X (hardbound) |
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9789027253965 |
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