Linguistics and Literary History : In honour of Sylvia Adamson.

Intro -- Linguistics and Literary History -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- References -- Enregistering the North: The dialect of Mendicus in William Bullein's Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence -- 1. Introduction: Literary dialect and enregisterment -- 2. William Bullein and the dialogue -- 3. Sixteenth-century views of the north and northern English -- 4. Bullein's representation of Northumberland and Northumbrian dialect -- 4.1 Textual references -- 4.2 Dialect and lexis -- 4.3 Dialect and phonology -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1: Transcription of extract from Bullein's Dialogue -- The origin and development of the iffy-an(d) conjunction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The iffy-an(d) conjunction in the history of the English language -- 3. The variation between conditional if and and in selected Middle English texts -- 4. The occurrence of conditional and in other languages -- 5. The rise and fall of the iffy-an(d) - conclusions -- References -- From ornament to armament: The epistolary rhetoric of Lady Elizabeth Tudor -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Style and rhetoric -- 3. Elizabeth's autograph letters: 1544-1556 -- 4. Letter One: 31 December 1544, to Queen Katherine Parr -- 5. Letter Two: 17 March 1554 to Queen Mary I -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Letter One -- Letter Two -- Borrowing and copy: A philological approach to Early Modern English lexicology -- 1. Lexical expansion and the development of the literary language in Early Modern English lexicology -- 2. The tools available for tracing the lexical history of Early Modern English -- 3. A test case: The semantic field "sweet" -- 4. A detailed investigation of douce and dulce -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Dictionaries, reference works, and text collections.

Decoding the parentheses in Shakespeare's Coriolanus: A functionalist approach -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies of parentheses -- 3. Parentheses: A functionalist approach -- 4. Parentheses in Coriolanus -- 4.1 Parentheses as extra information -- 4.2 Parentheses as interpersonal mediation -- 4.3 Parentheses as metalinguistic markers -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- The first person in fiction of the 1790s -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The form of first-person narrative -- 3. Memoirs of Emma Courtney: Character and necessity -- 4. Desmond: Sympathetic awareness -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- "Worth a moment's notice": Jane Austen and conversational parentheticals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Kinesic parentheticals: An analysis -- 3.1 General linguistic analysis -- 3.2 Character analysis -- 3.3 Summary of findings -- 4. Round brackets and kinesic parentheticals: A discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Jane Austen and the prescriptivists -- 1. Jane Austen in an age of linguistic flux -- 2. Austen and grammatical rules -- 3. Austen and metalanguage -- 4. Austen and dialect -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Dismantling narrative modes: Authorial revisions in the opening of Mrs Dalloway -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The composition of Mrs Dalloway -- 3. Authorial re-vision of the text -- 3.1 The dismantling of narrative modes in the presentation of individual consciousness -- 3.2 The dismantling of narrative modes in the presentation of dialogic consciousness -- 4. The stylistic presentation of consciousness and the writer's aesthetic -- 5. Implications for narrative theory -- References -- Stylistics and "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by W.B. Yeats -- 1. Introduction -- 2. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven -- 2.1 Context -- 2.2 Overall linguistic, narratological and text-worlds interpretative structure.

2.3 Lines 1-5, the addresser's wish/want world and the hypothetical pledge, predicated on the existence of that wish/want world -- 2.4 Lines 6-7, the basic text-world and what the I 'actually does' -- 2.5 The request -- 2.6 Concluding remarks about the poem -- 3. Allusion/intertextuality and interpretations/readings (including anachronistic readings) -- 4. Stylistics and matters cognitive -- References -- Index.

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