Quoting Speech in Early English |
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| Author:
| Moore, Colette |
| Series title: | Studies in English Language Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-107-67353-3 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2014 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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Early English texts did not have a convention of quotation marks for reporting direct speech. This raises problems for interpreting and understanding represented discourse. Colette Moore examines the strategies pre-modern texts used to indicate direct speech and the implications of these strategies for reading Middle and Early Modern English works.
Early English texts did not have a convention of quotation marks for reporting direct speech. This raises problems for interpreting and understanding represented discourse. Colette Moore examines the strategies pre-modern texts used to indicate direct speech and the implications of these strategies for reading Middle and Early Modern English works.