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- The Virtues
of Language
Edited
by Dieter Stein and Rosanna Sornicola
Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf / Università
di Napoli "Federico II"
The volume contains 13 specially written specialist articles on
a wide range of subjects within the ambit of the history of the
English language and prominent literary uses of it. In uniting
linguistic and literary pursuits in a single volume, it follows
the noble Neapolitan scholars research interests, as well
as representing topics that figure prominently in any comprehensive
university course in English. Subjects range from the rise of
the present progressive in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle via issues
in Medieval English, concepts of language inherent in the Early
Modern English grammatical treatises and an evaluation of their
value as evidence for the development of the language, the new
science and language in the 17th century, on literary issues
like the implied director in Macbeth, Sir Elyots
Enigmatic Image of Governance, English history reflected
in Ben Jonson to the history of text types and Jespersens
reading of Saussures Cours. Apart from an introductory
section with articles on Franks biography, his scientific
activities and his impact on the field, the book contains work
by Susan Fitzmaurice, Nicola Pantaleo, Gabriella Di Martino, Konrad
Koerner, Stefano Manferlotti, Uwe Baumann, Anna Maria Palombi
Cataldi, Rosanna Sornicola and Dieter Stein.
ISBN: 1556196245
Anno: 1998
pp.: 232
John
Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of contents
Part
I: Thomas Frank: Appraisals of his Life and Work
"Thomas Frank, 1925-1990", E.F.K. Koerner...3
"Thomas Frank in the Neapolitan Environment", Rosanna
Sornicola...11
"Honoring Thomas Frank: Introduction and Overview of the
Contributions", Rosanna Sornicola and Dieter Stein...15
Part II: Studies in the History of the English Language
"Grammaticalisation, Textuality and Subjectivity: The Progressive
and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle", Susan M. Fitzmaurice...21
"The Language of wit in Piers Plowman",
Nicola Pantaleo...51
"Relative Sentences in late Middle English: The Paston
and the Cely Letters", Dieter Stein...67
Part III: Studies in the History of Language and Linguistics
"The Interpretation of Historical Sources as a Problem
for Diachronic Typology: Word-order in English Rhetorical and
Grammatical Treatises of the XVIth and Early XVIIth Centuries",
Rosanna Sornicola...81
"The new science and the New Language in Seventeenth
Century England", Gabriella di Martino...129
"Otto Jespersen as a Reader of the Cours de Linguistique
Générale", E.F.K. Koerner...151
Part IV: Studies on History in Literary Texts
"Macbeth and the Implied Director", Stefano Manferlotti...167
"Sir Thomas Elyot's The Image of Governance: A Humanist's
Speculum Principis and a Literary Puzzle ", Uwe Baumann...177
"The Union of England and Scotland Represented at Court
in Ben Jonson's Hymenaei (1606)", Anna Maria Palombi Cataldi...201
"How-to Literature: A Comparison of Some Texts
on Childbirth", David Hart...213
General Index...229
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