The Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing : Exploring Bess of Hardwick’s manuscript letters
- Submitting institution
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Edge Hill University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 20354107
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-319-66008-0
- Publisher
- Palgrave, Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-66007-3
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book uses a corpus of manuscript letters to investigate how linguistic features characteristic of spoken communication function within early modern epistolary prose. These letters are examined 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. By adopting a discourse-analytic approach to the language and making reference to the socio-historical context of language use, this provides an alternative perspective to the one often presented in traditional historical accounts of English.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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