Linguistics and literary history : in honour of Sylvia Adamson / edited by Anita Auer [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auer, Anita, 1975- author.

Series:

Linguistic approaches to literature ; Volume 25.

Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 1569-3112 ; Volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--History.

English language.

English language--Style.

Literature and history.

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Linguistics and Literary History systematically explores the advantages of an inter-disciplinary approach within the broad area of English studies. It brings together stylistics, literary theory and diachronic linguistics in order to explore their interaction at various methodological, descriptive and interpretative levels. This unique combination makes this volume on historical stylistics an important work for international scholars and postgraduate students working on the interface between literary history and language change, both from corpus-based and qualitative perspectives. The chapters written by leading scholars in these various fields are an appropriate reference work for teaching and research purposes in the areas of stylistics, historical linguistics, English language and literature, corpus linguistics and literary history.

Contents:

Intro

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

Appendix 1: Transcription of extract from Bullein's Dialogue

The 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

From ornament to armament: The epistolary rhetoric of Lady Elizabeth Tudor

2. Style and rhetoric

3. Elizabeth's autograph letters: 1544-1556

4. Letter One: 31 December 1544, to Queen Katherine Parr

5. Letter Two: 17 March 1554 to Queen Mary I

6. Conclusion

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

Dictionaries, reference works, and text collections.

Decoding the parentheses in Shakespeare's Coriolanus: A functionalist approach

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

The first person in fiction of the 1790s

2. The form of first-person narrative

3. Memoirs of Emma Courtney: Character and necessity

4. Desmond: Sympathetic awareness

"Worth a moment's notice": Jane Austen and conversational parentheticals

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

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

Dismantling narrative modes: Authorial revisions in the opening of Mrs Dalloway

2. The composition of Mrs Dalloway

3. Authorial re-vision of the text

3.1 The dismantling of narrative modes in the presentation of individual consciousness

3.2 The dismantling of narrative modes in the presentation of dialogic consciousness

4. The stylistic presentation of consciousness and the writer's aesthetic

5. Implications for narrative theory

Stylistics and "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by W.B. Yeats

2. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

2.1 Context

2.2 Overall linguistic, narratological and text-worlds interpretative structure.

2.3 Lines 1-5, the addresser's wish/want world and the hypothetical pledge, predicated on the existence of that wish/want world

2.4 Lines 6-7, the basic text-world and what the I 'actually does'

2.5 The request

2.6 Concluding remarks about the poem

3. Allusion/intertextuality and interpretations/readings (including anachronistic readings)

4. Stylistics and matters cognitive

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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