Quoting Speech in Early English
Colette (University of Washington) Moore
Cambridge University Press, 2014
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Early English texts did not have a convention of quotation marks for reporting direct speech. This raises problems for interpreting and understanding represented discourse. Colette Moore examines the strategies pre-modern texts used to indicate direct speech and the implications of these strategies for reading Middle and Early Modern English works.
- ISBN-13
- 9781107673533
- ISBN-10
- 1107673534
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2014
- Publication date
- 2014-04-17
- Pages
- 232
- Dimensions
- 151x228x16
- Weight
- 346