Instructional writing in English : studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 189 Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 189.
Subject:	Didactic literature, English -- History and criticism. English prose literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism. English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching. Didactic literature, English. English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching. English prose literature -- Early modern. English prose literature -- Middle English. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11280862

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Other authors / contributors:	Peikola, Matti. Skaffari, Janne. Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa. Hiltunen, Risto.
ISBN:	9789027290489 9027290482 9789027254245 9027254249
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language. Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied represent procedural and behavioural discourse in a variety of genres. The primary texts, from Ælfric's homilies to medieval cooking recipes to seventeenth-century American conduct literature to present-day language textbooks, display a variety of linguistic devices typical of instruction. The materials non.
Other form:	Print version: Instructional writing in English. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009 9789027254245 9027254249

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Acknowledgments
2. In honour of Risto Hiltunen
3. Tabula gratulatoria
4. Approaching instructional writing in English
5. Teaching by stories: AElfric's instructive narratives
6. The\WOMANual: Ancrene Wisse on instruction
7. Vague language in the medieval recipes of the Forme of Cury
8. Instructional aspects of the calendar in later medieval England, with special reference to The John Rylands University Library MS English 80
9. Authority and instruction in two sixteenth-century medical dialogues
10. "Proper to their sex": Letter-writing instruction and epistolary model dialogues in Henry Care's The Female Secretary
11. (Un)Becoming conduct: Cotton Mather's Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion and the Salem witchcraft crisis
12. "Instruction with delight": The narrator's voice in John Newbery's early English children's books
13. Doing what the doctor said: Constructing an authoritative voice in William Buchan's Domestic Medicine
14. Instructional writing on English: What guides the textbook writer?
15. Index

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