Instructional writing in English : studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen /
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Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
Series: | Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 189 Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 189. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11280862 |
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