The Use of Modal Expression Preference as a Marker of Style and Attribution: The Case of William Tyndale and the 1533 English "Enchiridion Militis ... Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics)
Description: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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Use of Modal Expression Preference as a Marker of Style and Attribution: The Case of William Tyndale and the 1533 English "Enchiridion Militis ... Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics). To get started finding The Use of Modal Expression Preference as a Marker of Style and Attribution: The Case of William Tyndale and the 1533 English "Enchiridion Militis ... Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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The Use of Modal Expression Preference as a Marker of Style and Attribution: The Case of William Tyndale and the 1533 English "Enchiridion Militis ... Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics)
Description: 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Use of Modal Expression Preference as a Marker of Style and Attribution: The Case of William Tyndale and the 1533 English "Enchiridion Militis ... Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics). To get started finding The Use of Modal Expression Preference as a Marker of Style and Attribution: The Case of William Tyndale and the 1533 English "Enchiridion Militis ... Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.