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Author : Colleen Barceló Page
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00647486Y
Author : Maurizio Gotti,Paul Gillaerts
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3039116819
The focus of this volume is on the business letter genre, a seminal and widely used genre in business communication. Since the introduction of the Internet, interest in this genre has increased once again, because of the digital format of the letter. E-mail has partially taken over the multiple functions of the traditional business letter and bypassed, again partially, the fax. However, the letter has also survived in its written form. Since the 1990s, genre theory has been receiving a lot of attention, both in academic and pedagogical circles. Discourse analysts have increasingly discovered the importance of the genre concept for the understanding of discourse. Not only do we get a better understanding of the linguistic characteristics (register, lexico-grammatical features) of texts, but we also become aware of their macrostructures which appear to be organised according to genre expectations and conventions rooted in the socio-cultural context. This evolution is also reflected in the different research approaches to the business letter, as shown by the various chapters of this volume.
Author : Terttu Nevalainen,Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027222312
The contributions in this book discuss letter-writing from 1400 to 1800, and the material studied ranges from the late medieval Paston Letters and the correspondence between Sweden and the German Hanse to Early Modern English family letters and correspondence in natural history between England and North America in the eighteenth century. By bringing a set of corpus linguistic, discourse analytic, pragmatic and sociolinguistic approaches to bear on historical letter-writing activity, the articles both extend and complement the traditional letter-writing research in the history of European languages, which approaches the topic from a largely rhetorical perspective. The articles in this book were first published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5:2 (2004), share a contextualised view of letters: whether approached from the perspective of language contact, social and discursive practices, intertextuality, audience design or linguistic politeness, letters are analysed as part of their specific familial, business or scientific network. Writing letters thus emerges as highly context-sensitive social interaction.
Author : Martha Carlin,David Crouch
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812207569
Everyday life in early thirteenth-century England is revealed in vivid detail in this riveting collection of correspondence of people from all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls. The documents presented here include letters between masters and servants, husbands and wives, neighbors and enemies, and cover a wide range of topics: politics and war, going to fairs and going to law, attending tournaments and stocking a game park, borrowing cash and doing favors for friends, investigating adultery and building a windmill. While letters by celebrated people have long been known, the correspondence of ordinary people has not survived and has generally been assumed never to have existed in the first place. Martha Carlin and David Crouch, however, have discovered numerous examples of such correspondence hiding in plain sight. The letters can be found in manuscripts called formularies—the collections of form letters and other model documents that for centuries were used to teach the arts of letter-writing and keeping accounts. The writing-masters and their students who produced these books compiled examples of all the kinds of correspondence that people of means, members of the clergy, and those who handled their affairs might expect to encounter in their business and personal lives. Tucked among the sample letters from popes to bishops and from kings to sheriffs are examples of a much more casual, ephemeral kind of correspondence. These are the low-level letters that evidently were widely exchanged, but were often discarded because they were not considered to be of lasting importance. Two manuscripts, one in the British Library and the other in the Bodleian Library, are especially rich in such documents, and it is from these collections that Carlin and Crouch have drawn the documents in this volume. They are presented here in their first printed edition, both in the original Latin and in English translation, each document splendidly contextualized in an accompanying essay.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2426 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057121345
Author : J. Daybell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137006066
The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028425267
Author : Helen Barr
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191540868
Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England bridges the disciplines of literature and history by examining various kinds of literary language as examples of social practice. Readings of both English and Latin texts from the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries are grounded in close textual study which reveals the social positioning of these works and the kinds of ideological work they can be seen to perform. Distinctive new readings of texts emerge which challenge received interpretations of literary history and late medieval culture. Canonical authors and texts such as Chaucer, Gower, and Pearl are discussed alongside the less familiar: Clanvowe, anonymous alliterative verse, and Wycliffite prose tracts.
Author : Carol Poster,Linda C. Mitchell
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1570036519
Once nearly as ubiquitous as dictionaries and cookbooks are today, letter-writing manuals and their predecessors served to instruct individuals not only on the art of letter composition but also, in effect, on personal conduct. Poster and Mitchell contend that the study of letter-writing theory, which bridges rhetorical theory and grammatical studies, represents an emerging discipline in need of definition. In this volume, they gather the contributions of eleven experts to sketch the contours of epistolary theory and collect the historic and bibliographic materials - from Isocrates to email - that form the basis for its study.
Author : Henry Justin Steinberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00731174A
Author : Jean Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : IND:39000003858219
Author : Montserrat Piera
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004406490
A study of the cultural practices and paradigms of reading and textual composition among medieval Iberian women readers and writers (specifically Violant of Bar, Leonor López de Córdoba, Constanza de Castilla, Teresa de Cartagena and Isabel de Villena).
Author : George Watson,Ian Roy Willison
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : English literature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Adrian Gully
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748633746
The Culture of Letter-Writing in Pre-Modern Islamic Society received an honourable mention from the British-Kuwait Friendship Society at BRISMES 2009Writing letters was an important component of intellectual life in the Middle Islamic period, telling us much about the cultural history of pre-modern Islamic society. This book offers a unique analysis of letter-writing, focusing on the notion of the power of the pen. The author looks at the wider context of epistolography, relating it to the power structures of Islamic society in that period. He also attempts to identify some of the similarities and differences between Muslim modes of letter-writing and those of western cultures.One of the strengths of this book is that it is based on a wide range of primary Arabic sources, thus reflecting the broader epistemological importance of letter-writing in Islamic society.
Author : Giles Constable
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : UVA:X001768176
