Quoting Speech in Early English(English, Hardcover, Moore Colette)

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Quoting Speech in Early English(English, Hardcover, Moore Colette) is written by Moore Colette and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521199085 (ISBN 10) and 9780521199087 (ISBN 13).

Before quotation marks became widespread convention, English texts were organized more fluidly, employing varying lexical and textual strategies for marking represented discourse. When we add our present-day quotation marks to editions of Middle English texts, we also overlay our modern interpretation of speech representation, with its expectations of faithful reporting and carefully delineated voices. In doing so, we mask the less-determined nature of early speech marking, and obscure the ways that its plasticity functions as a narrative and stylistic tool. This book provides the first full study of speech representation in pre-modern English. Studying the pragmatic and discourse strategies of English texts from 1350-1600 is essential to reading Middle English works and to understanding the cultural assumptions implicit in the production of early written texts.