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Punctuation in Context - Past and Present Perspectives

BuchGebunden
308 Seiten
Englisch
Peter Langerschienen am18.12.2019
The book showcases grammatical, pragmatic, and stylistic functions of punctuation, and shows how punctuation can encode emotion, metalinguistic marking, foregrounding and paralinguistic indications. It also highlights the sensibility of punctuation to genre and the speech-writing continuum, and shows how punctuation conventions change in time.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextThe book showcases grammatical, pragmatic, and stylistic functions of punctuation, and shows how punctuation can encode emotion, metalinguistic marking, foregrounding and paralinguistic indications. It also highlights the sensibility of punctuation to genre and the speech-writing continuum, and shows how punctuation conventions change in time.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-0343-3790-8
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2019
Erscheinungsdatum18.12.2019
Reihen-Nr.263
Seiten308 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht508 g
Illustrationen54 Abb.
Artikel-Nr.16101400

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Functions and Contexts of Punctuation - Non-correlative Commas in Nineteenth-century Letters and Texts - Present-day English Hyphenation -Omission Marks - Parentheses and Written Direct Speech in Early Modern Printed Books - Pragmatics of Punctuation - Punctuation and the Reception of Early English Texts - Functions of Punctuation in the Plague Treatise by John of Burgundy - The Standardization of Punctuation in Early Modern English Legal Proclamations - Exclamation Marks: Early Modern and Present-day Textual Functions - Emotivesmehr

Autor

Claudia Claridge is Professor of English linguistics at the University of Augsburg. Her research interests include the history of English with a focus on early and late Modern English, historical discourse studies, diachronic and synchronic pragmatics as well as corpus linguistics. Merja Kytö is Professor of English Language at Uppsala University, specializing in English historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and manuscript studies. She has published extensively on Early and Late Modern English, with particular interest in speech-related texts.