Instructional writing in English : studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen /

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The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language. Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied represen...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Peikola, Matti, Skaffari, Janne, Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa, Hiltunen, Risto
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Collection:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 189.
Sujets:
1100-1700
Didactic literature, English > History and criticism.
English prose literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
English prose literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching.
Littérature didactique anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Prose anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Didactic literature, English.
English prose literature > Early modern.
English prose literature > Middle English.
Festschriften.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Approaching instructional writing in English / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Janne Skaffari and Matti Peikola
  • Teaching by stories: Ælfric's instructive narratives / Brita Wårvik
  • The WOMANual: Ancrene Wisse on instruction / Janne Skaffari
  • Vague language in the medieval recipes of the Forme of Cury / Ruth Carroll
  • Instructional aspects of the calendar in later medieval England, with special reference to the John Rylands University Library MS English 80 / Matti Peikola
  • Authority and instruction in two sixteenth-century medical dialogues / Irma Taavitsainen
  • "Proper to their sex": letter-writing instruction and epistolary model dialogues in Henry Care's The female secretary / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
  • (Un)becoming conduct: Cotton Mather's Ornaments for the daughters of Zion and the Salem witchcraft crisis / Kathleen L. Doty
  • "Instruction with delight": the narrator's voice in John Newbery's early English children's books / Lydia Kokkola
  • Doing what the doctor said: constructing an authoritative voice in William Buchan's Domestic medicine / Ellen Valle
  • Instructional writing on English: what guides the textbook writer? / Päivi Pietilä, Leena Taanila-Hall and Sonja Vainio.

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