Punctuation in Context – Past and Present Perspectives

Claudia Claridge; Merja Kytö

Punctuation in Context – Past and Present Perspectives

by Claudia Claridge (Volume editor), Merja Kytö (Volume editor)
©2020, Edited Collection, 308 Pages
Linguistics

Punctuation is an integral element in writing and has been so for centuries. The present volume brings together approaches in linguistics, stylistics and other fields to highlight the rich repertoire of issues involved in the study of punctuation. The contributions to the book discuss the grammatical, pragmatic, rhetorical and stylistic functions of punctuation, such as encoding emotion, metalinguistic marking, foregrounding and paralinguistic indication. They also highlight the sensibility of punctuation to genre and the speech-writing continuum, as well as the important role punctuation plays for reader interpretation. They further demonstrate how punctuation conventions change in time. The data is drawn from English, with one investigation devoted to German.

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
About the editors
About the book
Citability of the eBook
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Multiple Functions and Contexts of Punctuation
Focus on Selected Punctuation Marks
- Non-correlative Commas between Subjects and Verbs in Nineteenth-century Private Letters and Scientific Texts
- Present-day English Hyphenation: Historical Origin, Functions and Pragmatics
- How Omission Marks Mark Omission …: An Inquiry into the Graphematics/Pragmatics Interface
- The Path Not Taken: Parentheses and Written Direct Speech in Early Modern Printed Books
Focus on Texts and Contexts
- The Pragmatics of Punctuation: Parentheses and Austen’s Dialogic Techniques
- Textual Form and Textual Function: Punctuation and the Reception of Early English Texts
- Functions of Punctuation in Six Latin and English Versions of the Plague Treatise by John of Burgundy
- ‘His maiestie chargeth, that no person shall engrose any maner of corne’: The Standardization of Punctuation in Early Modern English Legal Proclamations1
- Exclamation Marks Then and Now: Early Modern and Present-day Textual Functions
- Emotives: From Punctuation to Emojis
Bibliography
Index

Pages:

308

Year:

2020

ISBN (HARDBACK):

9783034337908 (Active)

ISBN (EPUB):

9783034338028 (Active)

ISBN (PDF):

9783034338011 (Active)

DOI:

10.3726/b16021

Language:

English

Keywords:

English, stylistics, Grammar, Pragmatics, punctuation mark, rhetorics

Published:

Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2020. 308 pp., 2 fig. col., 15 fig. b/w, 37 tables.

Claudia Claridge is Professor of English linguistics at the University of Augsburg. Her research interests include the history of English with a focus on early and late Modern English, historical discourse studies, diachronic and synchronic pragmatics as well as corpus linguistics.

Merja Kytö is Professor of English Language at Uppsala University, specializing in English historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and manuscript studies. She has published extensively on Early and Late Modern English, with particular interest in speech-related texts.

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