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