Speech representation in the history of english : topics and approaches / edited by Peter J. Grund, Terry Walker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

J. Grund, Peter, editor.

Walker, Terry, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quotation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"This volume explores the speech representation of the past, comprising in-depth analyses of how speakers and writers mark, structure, and discuss a previous speech event or fictional speech in the history of English. Focusing on the Early Modern English and the Late Modern English periods, the chapters are concerned with topics such as parentheses as markers of represented speech, the development of BE like as a reporting expression, the gradual formation of free indirect speech reporting, and the interpersonal functions of represented speech. Various social contexts and genres are covered, including witness depositions, literary texts, letters, histories, and the spoken language of the recent past. The chapters draw on historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics, and corpus linguistics in showing a wide array of approaches to the study of speech representation in the history of English"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Before Quotation Marks: Quotative Parentheses in Early Printed Books / Colette Moore

Initiating Direct Speech in Early Modern English Prose Fiction and Witness Depositions / Ursula Lutzky

Reconfiguring Quotation over Time and the System-Internal Rise of BE Like / Alexandra D'Arcy

The Metalinguistic Description of Speech and Fictional Language: Exploring Speech Reporting Verbs and Speech Descriptors in Late Modern English / Peter J. Grund

Clearer Contours: The Stylization of Free Indirect Speech in Nineteenth-Century Fiction / Lieven Vandelanotte

Free Indirect Speech, Slipping, or a System in Flux? Exploring the Continuum between Direct and Indirect Speech in Early Modern English / Terry Walker and Peter J. Grund

"Saying thes woordes or the lyke": Speech Representation in Sixteenth-Century Correspondence / Mel Evans

Discourse Representation in Early Modern English Historiography / Claudia Claridge

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-091808-X

0-19-091809-8

0-19-091807-1