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100			_aMarcus, Imogen
245		4	_aThe Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing : _bExploring Bess of Hardwick's Manuscript Letters / _cMarcus, Imogen
260			_aLondon : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2017.
300			_a357 p. ; _c20 cm.
500			_aThis book uses a corpus of manuscript letters from Bess of Hardwick to investigate how linguistic features characteristic of spoken communication function within early modern epistolary prose. Using these letters as a primary data source with reference to other epistolary materials from the early modern period (1500-1750), the author examines them in a unique and systematic way. The book is the first of its kind to combine a replicable scribal profiling technique, used to identify holograph and scribal handwriting within the letters, with innovative analyses of the language they contain. Furthermore, by adopting a discourse-analytic approach to the language and making reference to the socio-historical context of language use, the book provides an alternative perspective to the one often presented in traditional historical accounts of English. This volume will appeal to students and scholars of early modern English and historical linguistics.
650			_aLanguage Arts & Disciplines
650			_aThe Linguistics
650			_aSpoken Communication
650			_aEarly Modern English Writing
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