Instructional writing in English : studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen / edited by Matti Peikola, Janne Skaffari, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peikola, Matti.

Skaffari, Janne.

Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa.

Hiltunen, Risto.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; 189.

Pragmatics & beyond new series ; 189

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Didactic literature, English--History and criticism.

Didactic literature, English.

English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Physical Description:

xiii, 240 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language. Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied represent procedural and behavioural discourse in a variety of genres. The primary texts, from Ælfric's homilies to medieval cooking recipes to seventeenth-century American conduct literature to present-day language textbooks, display a variety of linguistic devices typical of instruction. The materials nonetheless differ with respect to the explicitness of their instructive purpose. Bringing together a broad range of instructional writing from the Old, Middle and Modern English periods, this collection celebrates the sixtieth birthday of Risto Hiltunen, who has successfully combined discourse-linguistic approaches with the history of English in his research, and inspired the colleagues and former students contributing to this volume.

Contents:

Approaching instructional writing in English / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Janne Skaffari and Matti Peikola

Teaching by stories: Ælfric's instructive narratives / Brita Wårvik

The WOMANual: Ancrene Wisse on instruction / Janne Skaffari

Vague language in the medieval recipes of the Forme of Cury / Ruth Carroll

Instructional aspects of the calendar in later medieval England, with special reference to the John Rylands University Library ms English / Matti Peikola

Authority and instruction in two sixteenth-century medical dialogues / Irma Taavitsainen

Proper to their sex: letter-writing instruction and epistolary model dialogues in Henry Care's The female secretary / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen

Instructional writing in English (un)becoming conduct: Cotton Mather's Ornaments for the daughters of Zion and the Salem witchcraft crisis / Kathleen L. Doty

Instruction with delight: The narrator's voice in John Newbery's early English children's books / Lydia Kokkola

Doing what the doctor said: constructing an authoritative voice in William Buchan's Domestic medicine / Ellen Valle

Instructional writing on English: what guides the textbook writer? / Päivi Pietilä, Leena Taanila-Hall and Sonja Vainio.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612245275

9781282245273

1282245279

9789027290489

9027290482

OCLC:

460700089