The language of public and private communication in a historical perspective
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- ISBN: 1443821411
- ISBN: 9781443821414
- ISBN: 1443822027 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781443822022 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 381 p.) : ill.
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electronic resource - Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotii -- Communicative competence and the language of eighteenth-century letters / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade -- "We beg to suggest" : features of legal English in late modern business letters / Marina Dossena -- Keywords, collocations and ideology : an analysis of the Castlereagh Act of union correspondence in its political context / Alessandra Levorato -- The language of Charles Darwin's Red Notebook / Antonio Bertacca -- Motions and emotions in a lady traveller's writing / Gabriella Di Martino -- In the Queen's name : the writings of Elizabeth I between public and private communication / Giovanni Iamartino and Angela Andreani -- "Hail Mary" goes underground : public and private religious discourse in 16th century England / John Denton -- Eighteenth-century London non-standard spellings as evidenced by servants', tradesmen's and shopkeepers' bills / Laura wright -- Capt. Badiley's answer unto Capt. Appleton's remonstrance (1653) : the recontextualisation in print of private correspondence / Nicholas Brownlees -- Identifying diversity in English newspapers in 1701 / Udo Fries -- Diologic quotation patterns in historical news reports / Birte Bos -- Witness narratives in 17th century trial proceedings : a case study of historical courtroom public discourse / Elisabetta Cecconi -- The evolution of a distinct Australian lexis as seen in the public discourse of nineteenth century bush ballads and spoken verse / Thomas Christiansen -- Spanish borrowings in early modern English travelogues and dictionaries, or how to make the new reality in the Spanish colonies intelligible to English readers / Alicia Rodriquez-Alvarez -- Adjective comparison in early modern English : variation across genres in public and private discourse / Salena Sampson -- Etymology, genealogy and hagiographical Auctoritas in the works of Osbern Bokenham : redeeming the public voice of English poetry / Alice Spencer -- "A simple and popular description" : popularization of natural science in the Natural History Rambles of J.G. Wood / Eleonora Chiavetta -- "Gull'd by the enchanting tongues of Quack and Zany" : the rhetoric of nostrum marketing in speech and print in early modern London / Roberta Mullini. |
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