Jonathan Culpeper, Merja Kyto, Culpeper Jonathan

Early Modern English Dialogues

Spoken Interaction as Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyses speech-related genres in Early Modern English, providing ideas of what spoken interaction in earlier times might have been like.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 963g
• ISBN-13: 9780521835411
• ISBN-10: 0521835410
• Artikelnr.: 28111864

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Culpeper is a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University. His previous publications include History of English, 2nd edition (2005) and Language and Characterisation: People in Plays and Other Texts (2001). He was also co-editor for Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis (2002) and Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of tables
1. Introduction
2. Dialogic genres and their contexts
3. The multiple contexts and multiple discourses of dialogic genres
4. The structures of spoken face-to-face interaction and writing
5. Lexical bundles
6. Lexical repetitions
7. Cohesion: the case of AND
8. Grammatical variation
9. An introduction to pragmatic noise
10. Pragmatic noise: a survey of functions and contexts in Early Modern English comedy plays
11. Pragmatic noise: variation and change in the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560¿1760
12. Pragmatic noise: meanings and their development
13. Social variation in interaction: representing identities
14. The distribution of talk: social roles in trial proceedings and play-texts
15. Pragmatic markers
16. Summary and concluding remarks
Appendix I
Appendix II
Indexes.