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.
| Autorius: | Elizabeth Bell Canon |
| Serija: | Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics |
| Leidėjas: | Peter Lang |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2010 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 180 |
| ISBN-10: | 1433108321 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781433108327 |
| Formatas: | Knyga kietu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
| Žanras: | Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 |
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