Early Modern English Dialogues: Spoken Interaction as Writing
Language is largely comprised of face-to-face spoken interaction; however, the method, description and theory of traditional historical accounts of English have been largely based on scholarly and literary writings. Using the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760, in this 2010 book Culpeper and Kytö offer a unique account of the linguistic features in several speech-related written genres, comprising trial proceedings, witness depositions, plays, fiction and didactic works. The volume is the...
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"Language is largely comprised of face-to-face spoken interaction; however, the method, description and theory of traditional historical accounts of English have been largely based on scholarly and literarywritings. Using the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560-1760, Culpeper and Kyt o offer a unique account of the linguistic features in several speech-related written genres, comprising Trial proceedings, Witness depositions, Plays, Fiction and Didactic works. The volume is the first to provide innovative analyses of several neglected written genres, demonstrating how they might be researched, and highlighting the theories which are needed to underpin this research. Through this, the authors are able to create a fascinating insight into what spoken interaction in Early Modern English might have been like, providing an alternative perspective to that often presented in traditional historical accounts of English"--Provided by publisher.
List of platesList of figuresList of tables1 Introduction 12 Dialogic genres and their contexts 213 The multiple contexts and multiple discourses of dialogic genres 614 The structures of spoken face-to-face interaction and writing 885 Lexical bundles 1036 Lexical repetitions 1427 Cohesion: the case of and 1588 Grammatical variation 1849 An introduction to pragmatic noise 19910 Pragmatic noise: a survey of functions and contexts in Early Modern English Comedy plays 22411 Pragmatic noise: variation and change in the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560-1760 26012 Pragmatic noise: meanings and their development 28413 Social variation in interaction: representing identities 30614 The distribution of talk: social roles in Trial proceedings and Play-texts 32615 Pragmatic markers 36116 Summary and concluding remarks 398Appendix I 406Appendix II 412References 434Author index 462Subject index 467
