33.673, Books: Playing the verb: van de Poppe

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-673. Mon Feb 21 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.673, Books: Playing the verb: van de Poppe

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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 08:17:30
From: Karijn Hootsen [lot-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Playing the verb: van de Poppe

 


Title: Playing the verb 
Subtitle: A literary-linguistic perspective on verb variation in early modern Dutch
prose 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/playing-the-verb-a-literary-linguistic-perspective-on-verb-variation-in-early-modern-dutch-prose 


Author: Cora van de Poppe

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933981 Pages: 218 Price: Europe EURO 32


Abstract:

Verbs are almost indispensable elements of texts. In the long seventeenth
century, a period in which the standards of language were still in flux, they
appeared in wide variety, resulting in a type of language variation that has
rarely been addressed before: intra-author variation. This dissertation is a
collection of four papers that deal with several forms of intra-author
variation in verbs from a literary-linguistic perspective. 

The study argues intra-author variation to be a phenomenon that falls to a
large extent in the interface between (socio)linguistics and literary studies.
Through the works of four historical individuals, the book opens a window onto
the complex political, religious, and cultural context in which authors
participated, highlighting the use of verbs as a device to take part in the
dynamic society of the long seventeenth century. The study includes the
language of authors of a high literary polish and those who had barely any
training but for whom texts were an essential means in striving for religious,
political and professional impact.

An important result is that despite differences in writing skills, education,
social position, and professional occupation, all four individuals played the
verb. Verbs provided a strategy to facilitate the interpretation of their
texts, both in the content and the structure of these texts: the authors used
verbs as a demarcating tool, making a text unit stand out and imbue it with
meaning in a certain way.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)


Written In: English  (eng)

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