Metadiscourse in Middle English and Early Modern English Religious Texts

Sandra Boggel

ISBN 10: 3631589867 / ISBN 13: 9783631589861

Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Aug 2009, 2009

Beschreibung

Neuware -In the last three decades, metadiscourse has caught the attention of numerous scholars from various research disciplines. This book adds to the discussion by looking at the phenomenon from a historical angle. Text analyses with a corpus of sermons and religious treatises from the 13 to the 18 century provide new insights into the way authors guide their audience through their texts and persuade them of their points of view. The focus on the Middle and Early Modern English periods, which witnessed the disintegration of the Catholic Church in England, the Reformation, the decline of Scholasticism and the advent of Renaissance Humanism, makes evident the influence of socio-cultural factors, text-type conventions, and a changing author-addressee relationship on the development of metadiscourse. 248 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783631589861

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Metadiscourse in Middle English and Early Modern English Religious Texts
• Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Aug 2009
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3631589867
• ISBN-13: 9783631589861
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 216B x 153 H x 17 T Millimeter Breite: 216 mm, Höhe: 153 mm, Tiefe: 17 mm
• Gewicht: 438 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

In the last three decades, metadiscourse has caught the attention of numerous scholars from various research disciplines. This book adds to the discussion by looking at the phenomenon from a historical angle. Text analyses with a corpus of sermons and religious treatises from the 13th to the 18th century provide new insights into the way authors guide their audience through their texts and persuade them of their points of view. The focus on the Middle and Early Modern English periods, which witnessed the disintegration of the Catholic Church in England, the Reformation, the decline of Scholasticism and the advent of Renaissance Humanism, makes evident the influence of socio-cultural factors, text-type conventions, and a changing author-addressee relationship on the development of metadiscourse.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The Author: Sandra Boggel studied English Language and Literature and Psychology at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany). She then became a teaching and research assistant at the English department of the University of Cologne, where she completed her doctoral thesis on the historical development of metadiscourse in 2008.