33.3875, Books: Transforming Early English: Smith

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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:34:01
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Transforming Early English: Smith

 


Title: Transforming Early English 
Subtitle: The Reinvention of Early English and Older Scots 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/transforming-early-english-reinvention-early-english-and-older-scots?format=PB 


Author: Jeremy J. Smith

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108414852 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 33.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108414852 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108414852 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 30.33


Abstract:

Transforming Early English shows how historical pragmatics can offer a
powerful explanatory framework for the changes medieval English and Older
Scots texts undergo, as they are transmitted over time and space. The book
argues that formal features such as spelling, script and font, and punctuation
- often neglected in critical engagement with past texts - relate closely to
dynamic, shifting socio-cultural processes, imperatives and functions. This
theme is illustrated through numerous case-studies in textual recuperation,
ranging from the reinvention of Old English poetry and prose in the later
medieval and early modern periods, to the eighteenth-century 'vernacular
revival' of literature in Older Scots.
 



Prologue. Snatched from the fire: the case of Thomas Percy; 1. On historical
pragmatics; 2. Inventing the Anglo-Saxons; 3. 'Witnesses preordained by God':
the reception of Middle English religious prose; 4. The great tradition:
Langland, Gower, Chaucer; 5. Forging the nation: reworking older Scottish
literature; 6. On textual transformations: Walter Scott and beyond.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     History of Linguistics
                     Language Documentation


Written In: English  (eng)

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