Verbal and visual communication in early English texts
When reading a text our understanding of its meaning is influenced by the visual form and material features of the page. The chapters in this volume investigate how visual and material features of early English books, documents, and other artefacts support - or potentially contradict - the linguisti...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols,
[2017]
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Utrecht studies in medieval literacy
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Utrecht studies in medieval literacy |
| Schlagworte: | Frühneuenglisch Textlinguistik Verb Syntax Kommunikation Visuelle Kommunikation Mittelenglisch |
| Umfang: | X, 280 Seiten |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Disciplinary decoding : towards understanding the language of visual and material features Mari-Liisa Varila, Hanna Salmi, Aleksi Mäkilähde, Janne Skaffari, and Matti Peikola
- Discourse variation, Mise-en-page, and textual organization in Middle English saints' lives Colette Moore
- How the page functions : reading Pitscottie's Cronicles in manuscript and print Francesca L. Mackay
- Verbal and visual communication in title pages of Early Modern English specialized medical texts Maura Ratia and Carla Suhr
- Quantifying contrasts : a method of computational analysis of visual features on the early printed page Jukka Tyrkkö
- Stating the obvious in runes Yin Liu
- Labours lost : William Caxton's "Otiose" sorts, c. 1472-1482 Anya Adair
- Code-switching, script-switching, and typeface-switching in Early Modern English manuscript letters and printed tracts Samuli Kaislaniemi
- Seeing is reading : typography in some Early Modern dictionaries R.W. McConchie
- Whose letters are they anyway? Addressing the issue of scribal writing in Bess of Hardwick's Early Modern English letters I.J. Marcus