02421cam a22003374i 4500 16519541 BD-DhUL 20161206140945.0 101026t20112011enk b 001 0 eng 2010045750 9780521199087 (hardback) DLC eng DLC DLC BD-DhUL rda pcc 427.02 MOQ Moore, Colette. Quoting Speech in Early English / Colette Moore. New York : Cambridge University Press, c2011. xiii, 216 p. ; 24 cm. Studies in English Language Includes bibliographical references and index. Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Methods of marking speech; 2. Interpreting reported speech: defamation depositions, sermons, chronicles; 3. Reported speech in literary texts: stylistic implications; Conclusion: pragmatic palimpsests; Appendices; Works cited; Index. "Before quotation marks became widespread convention, English texts were organized more fluidly, employing varying lexical and textual strategies for marking represented discourse. When we add our present-day quotation marks to editions of Middle English texts, we also overlay our modern interpretation of speech representation, with its expectations of faithful reporting and carefully delineated voices. In doing so, we mask the less-determined nature of early speech marking, and obscure the ways that its plasticity functions as a narrative and stylistic tool. This book provides the first full study of speech representation in pre-modern English. Studying the pragmatic and discourse strategies of English texts from 1350-1600 is essential to reading Middle English works and to understanding the cultural assumptions implicit in the production of early written texts"-- Provided by publisher. Quotation. English language Discourse analysis. English language Middle English, 1100-1500 Terms and phrases. Grammar, Comparative and general Interrogative. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative bisacsh. Cover image http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/99087/cover/9780521199087.jpg ddc BK rg11 2010-10-26 rg11 2010-10-26 ONIX to Lit xe10 2011-05-02 2 copies rec'd., to CIP ver. 131757 131757 0 0 ddc 0 427_020000000000000_MOQ 0 NFIC 247764 DUL DUL GEN 2016-12-06 Purchased 427.02 MOQ 477046 2016-12-06 2016-12-06 BK