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Women's epistolary utterance : a study of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611 /
Located at the intersection of historical pragmatics, letters and manuscript studies, this book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611. It investigates multiple ways in which socio-culturally and socio-familially contextualized reading of particular co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Tesis Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
233. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Women's Epistolary Utterance; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1; Introduction; 1.1 Research objectives; 1.2 Previous research; 1.3 Why the Thynne letters?; 1.4 Theory and methodology: Historical utterance in writing; 1.5 Overview of analyses; Chapter 2; The familial backdrop; Short biographies of the Thynne women; 2.1 Joan (bap. 1558, d. 1612); 2.2 Maria (c.1578-1611); Chapter 3; 'Mouths have become hands'; Holograph vs. scribal utterance; 3.1 Macro-context: The holograph/scribal distinction; 3.2 Micro-context: Using scribes.
- 3.3 Analysis I: Handwriting3.4 Analysis II: Spatial organization of the page; 3.5 Analysis III: Orthographies and abbreviation; 3.6 Analysis IV: Scribes and language; 3.6.1 Scribal practice(s); 3.6.2 Scribal variation in Joan Thynne's letters; 3.7 Conclusion; Chapter 4; Ruling epistolary prose; Punctuation and textual-utterance markers; 4.1 Textual utterances; 4.2 Historical background to epistolary prose structure; 4.3 Punctuation; 4.3.1 Punctuation in Joan's holograph letters; 4.3.2 Punctuation in Joan's scribal letters; 4.3.3 Punctuation in Maria's letters; 4.4 Lexical utterance markers.
- 4.4.1 Connectives4.4.2 Adverbial and subordinating connectors; 4.4.3 Discourse markers and interjections; 4.5 Present participles; 4.6 Openings and closings; 4.7 Conclusion; Chapter 5; Everyday magic verbs; Performative utterances; 5.1 Performatives: Description and significance; 5.2 Commissive performatives; 5.3 Representative performatives; 5.4 Expressive performatives; 5.5 Directive performatives; 5.6 Negative data?; 5.7 Conclusion; Chapter 6; Utterance, power and politeness; The letter exchange between Joan Thynne and Lucy Audley; 6.1 Mitigating the pragmatic risks of (not) writing.
- 6.2 Expressions of 'friendship' and sincerity6.3 Address terms; 6.4 Some other telling linguistic features; 6.5 Summary of Lucy and Joan's politeness strategies; 6.6 Palaeography and textual pragmatics; 6.7 The complexities of negotiation; Chapter 7; Sincerity, seriousness and ironic subversions; The attitudes of utterance in the letters of Maria Thynne, c.1601-1610; 7.1 Defining and interpreting historical attitudes; 7.2 Thought, expression and sincerity; 7.3 Trial, God, kinship terms and flattery: Extending the rhetoric of sincerity; 7.4 'yf you please': Sarcasm in the final letter to Joan.
- 7.5 'the effectes of a very much disquyetted minde': Ironic play in the letters to Thomas7.6 'In Sober Sadness': Maria's serious voice; 7.7 Conclusion; Chapter 8; Conclusions and future directions; 8.1 Looking at manuscript sources; 8.2 Communicative spaces in writing; 8.3 Literacy and personality; 8.4 Questions; 8.5 The end; Bibliography; A calendar with selected diplomatic transcriptions and images of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, c.1575-1611; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Research objectives; 1.2 Previous research; 1.3 Why the Thynne letters?