UID:
almahu_9948664729602882
Format:
1 online resource (179 p.)
Edition:
1st, New ed.
ISBN:
9781453900345
Series Statement:
Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics 76
Content:
Can an author’s preference for expressing modality be quantified and then used as a marker of attribution? This book explores the possibility of using the subjunctive mood as an indicator of style and a marker of authorship in Early Modern English texts. Using three works by the sixteenth-century biblical translator and polemicist, William Tyndale, Elizabeth Bell Canon establishes a predictable preference for certain types of modal expression. The theory of subjunctive use as a marker of attribution was then tested on the anonymous 1533 English translation of Erasmus’ Enchiridion Militis Christiani. Also included in this book is a modern English spelling version Tyndale’s The Parable of the Wicked Mammon.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781433108327
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3726/978-1-4539-0034-5
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https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/28432?format=EPDF
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