Review of (2018): The Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing: Exploring Bess of Hardwick’s Manuscript Letters

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terttu Nevalainen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Early Modern English

Discourse presentation in Early Modern English writing

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan McIntyre ◽  
Brian Walker
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Qualitative Analyses

In this article we report on a pilot project investigating the presentation of speech, writing and thought in Early Modern English prose fiction and news writing. The aim of the project is to determine whether discourse presentation changes diachronically and what the function of the various discourse presentation categories were in the Early Modern period. To study this we have built and annotated a small corpus of Early Modern English writing using the model of speech, writing and thought presentation outlined in Semino & Short (2004). We are thus able to compare our findings against those of Semino and Short for Present Day English writing. The quantitative results of our pilot study and our initial qualitative analyses lead to a number of hypotheses which we suggest are suitable for testing on a larger corpus of data.

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