Quoting Speech in Early English

Name: Quoting Speech in Early English
Author: Moore, Colette
ISBN: 9781107673533

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ISBN: 9781107673533

Published: April 17, 2014

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Pub. Country: United Kingdom

Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 232

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Early English texts did not have a convention of quotation marks for reporting direct speech. This raises problems for interpreting and understanding represented discourse. Colette Moore examines the strategies pre-modern texts used to indicate direct speech and the implications of these strategies for reading Middle and Early Modern English works.

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