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It is commonly accepted that English letters only represent sounds. Is this indeed the case? If not, how can the concepts represented by English letters be revealed? Analysis on the Ideographic Characteristics of Some English Morphemes provides the answers to these questions through an investigation of around 900 morphemes. The book’s point of departure for this investigation is that, because English words are composed of letters, their definitions may be linked to the concepts implied by th.

Authors, English. --- English letters. --- English literature --- English authors

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This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this method through case studies that illuminate how modern pragmatic theory may be applied to distant speech communities in both history and culture in order to reveal how speakers understand one another and how they exploit intended and unintended meanings for their own communicative ends. The analysis demonstrates the application of pragmatic theory (including speech act theory, deixis, politeness, implicature, and relevance theory) to the study of historical, literary and fictional letters from extended correspondences, producing an historically informed, richly situated account of the meanings and interpretations of those letters that a close reading affords. This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as to social and cultural historians, and literary critics.

English language --- Pragmatics --- Historical linguistics --- Lexicology. Semantics --- English literature --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- English letters --- English prose literature --- Letter writing --- History and criticism. --- History --- -English prose literature --- -Letter writing --- -English literature --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- Letters --- History and criticism --- -History --- -English letters --- -Correspondence --- -English language --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Linguistics / General

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"As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination of people who might never have produced, sent, or received letters themselves. In Epistolary Acts, Jordan Zweck examines the presentation of letters in early medieval vernacular literature, including hagiography, prose romance, poetry, and sermons on letters from heaven, moving beyond traditional genre study to offer a radically new way of conceptualizing Anglo-Saxon epistolarity. Zweck argues that what makes early medieval English epistolarity unique is the performance of what she calls "epistolary acts," the moments when authors represent or embed letters within vernacular texts. The book contributes to a growing interest in the intersections between medieval studies and media studies, blending traditional book history and manuscript studies with affect theory, media studies, and archive studies."--

English literature --- Letter writing --- Letters in literature. --- English letters --- Letters as a theme in literature --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- Letters --- History and criticism. --- History --- History. --- Altenglisch. --- Brief --- Briefliteratur. --- English letters. --- English poetry --- History and criticism --- Old English. --- 450-1100. --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra --- 450-1100 --- Old English Language, Period of

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Located at the intersection of historical pragmatics, letters and manuscript studies, this book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611. It investigates multiple ways in which socio-culturally and socio-familially contextualized reading of particular collections may increase our understanding of early modern letters as a particular type of handwritten communicative activity. The book also adds to our understanding of these women as individual users of English in their historical moment, especially in terms of literacy and their engagement with

English letters --- Letter writing --- Women and literature --- Letters in literature. --- Letters as a theme in literature --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- Letters --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- History --- Thynne, Joan, --- Thynne, Maria, --- England --- Social life and customs

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This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in a wide variety of forms in most domains of life. More broadly, the importance of letter writing can be seen in that the phenomenon has been widespread historically, being one of earliest forms of writing, and a wide range of contemporary genres have their roots in letters. The writing of a letter is embedded in a particular social situation, and like all other types of literacy objects and events, the activity gains its meaning and significance from being situated in cultural beliefs, values, and practices. This book brings together anthropologists, historians, educators and other social scientists, providing a range of case studies that explore aspects of the socially situated nature of letter writing.

Letter writing --- Written communication --- English letters --- English language --- English Language --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- Letters --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- Rhetoric --- History --- #KVHA:Brieven; Engels --- #KVHA:Retoriek; Engels --- #KVHA:Schrijfvaardigheid; Engels --- Correspondance --- Communication écrite --- Lettres (Genre littéraire) anglaises --- Anglais (Langue) --- History and criticism. --- Rhetoric. --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Rhétorique --- Germanic languages --- History.