| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 189 |
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Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 189
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| Contents |
Approaching instructional writing in English / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Janne Skaffari and Matti Peikola -- Teaching by stories: Ælfric's instructive narratives / Brita Wårvik -- The WOMANual: Ancrene Wisse on instruction / Janne Skaffari -- Vague language in the medieval recipes of the Forme of Cury / Ruth Carroll -- Instructional aspects of the calendar in later medieval England, with special reference to the John Rylands University Library MS English 80 / Matti Peikola -- Authority and instruction in two sixteenth-century medical dialogues / Irma Taavitsainen -- "Proper to their sex": letter-writing instruction and epistolary model dialogues in Henry Care's The female secretary / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen -- (Un)becoming conduct: Cotton Mather's Ornaments for the daughters of Zion and the Salem witchcraft crisis / Kathleen L. Doty -- "Instruction with delight": the narrator's voice in John Newbery's early English children's books / Lydia Kokkola -- Doing what the doctor said: constructing an authoritative voice in William Buchan's Domestic medicine / Ellen Valle -- Instructional writing on English: what guides the textbook writer? / Päivi Pietilä, Leena Taanila-Hall and Sonja Vainio |
| Summary |
The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language. Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied represent procedural and behavioural discourse in a variety of genres. The primary texts, from Ælfric's homilies to medieval cooking recipes to seventeenth-century American conduct literature to present-day language textbooks, display a variety of linguistic devices typical of instruction. The materials non |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Didactic literature, English -- History and criticism
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English prose literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Didactic literature, English
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching
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English prose literature -- Early modern
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English prose literature -- Middle English
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Festschriften.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Peikola, Matti.
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Skaffari, Janne.
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Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa.
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Hiltunen, Risto.
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| ISBN |
9789027290489 |
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9027290482 |
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9789027254245 |
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9027254249 |
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