The Use of Modal Expression Preference as a Marker of Style and Attribution
The Case of William Tyndale and the 1533 English 'Enchiridion Militis Christiani, Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics 76
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781433108327 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Umfang: | 180 S. |
| Einband: | gebundenes Buch |
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17.06.2010
Can an authors 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 Tyndales The Parable of the Wicked Mammon.
The Author: Elizabeth Bell Canon holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Georgia. She is currently Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse.
