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Phonetic variation, sound change, and identity in Scottish Gaelic
Nance, Claire. - 2013
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Studies in pre-Reformation Carthusian vernacular manuscripts: the cases of Dom William Mede and Dom Stephen Dodesham of Sheen
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Briathrachas an iasgaich ann an Eilean Bharraigh
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Reading the manuscript page: the use of supra-textual devices in the Middle English Trotula-manuscripts
Abstract: This thesis examines the use of supra-textual devices in the Trotula, a set of Middle English gynecological and obstetrical medical treatises. Through close examination of the thirteen manuscript versions dating between the early or mid-fifteenth century and the late sixteenth century, this thesis studies the way in which punctuation, layout, colour, marginalia and other visual devices are used to structure and present the texts. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, this thesis examines the ways in which supra-textual devices are used to organise the texts into units of various type and length (major and minor sections, paragraphs,recipes, sense-units, sentences, clauses, phrases), and how the presentation of these units contributes to the reading of the text, showing that,despite the lack of standardised punctuation practices, each manuscript text uses a consistent system of supra-textual devices. Their use is not haphazard, as has previously been asserted; supra-textual devices are used purposefully to structure the texts and to communicate with the reader. The definitions of ‘sentence’ and ‘sense-unit’ in the Middle English context are also discussed, as well as the terminology used to describe medieval punctuation practices. In particular, the often-made binary division between ‘grammatical’ and ‘rhetorical’ punctuation is examined, showing that this division is neither very informative nor useful in practice for describing the systems of supra-textual devices present in medieval English writing. While the majority of the units can be described in terms of ‘sense-units’, the development towards the modern ‘sentence’ can be evinced in the data. This thesis also examines the role that scribes played in adapting and modifying the textual presentation in their exemplars, arguing that scribes played a key role in modifying the appearance of the manuscript texts to suit the needs of their audiences. Emphasising the importance of contextualisation, the final chapter focuses on the pragmatics of supra-textual devices, and how they can contribute to our understanding of the ways in which these texts were read and used by private individuals, professional medical practitioners or textual communities. This thesis argues that the Trotula had a number of different audiences, with varied literacy skills, and the supra-textual devices in the manuscripts suggest a range of reading practices, from private to communal, silent to oral, intensive to extensive. This thesis demonstrates that a close examination of supra-textual devices can bring new insights into Middle English grammar as well as scribal and reading practices.
Keyword: P Philology. Linguistics; PE English
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4628/
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4628/1/2013ahvensalmiphd.pdf
https://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b2997573
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A documentary edition of Alexander Craig's 'Pilgrime and Hermite,' 1631: print and manuscript culture across the Union of Crowns
MacBean, Lorna. - 2013
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Examining long-term formant distributions as a discriminant in forensic speaker comparisons under a likelihood ratio framework
Harrison, Philip; French, Peter; Gold, Erica. - : Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 2013
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Language and style in David Peace’s 1974: a corpus-informed analysis
McIntyre, Dan. - : Société de Stylistique Anglaise, 2013
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Interpersonal pragmatics: Issues and debates
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Structure of child and adult past counterfactuals, and implications for acquisition of the construction
Crutchley, Alison. - : Cambridge University Press, 2013
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Situational Transformations: the offensive-izing of an email message and the public-ization of offensiveness
O'Driscoll, Jim. - : John Benjamins, 2013
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Group ritual and relational work
Kádár, Daniel Z.; Bax, Marcel. - : Elsevier, 2013
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Evidence evaluation for discrete data
Gold, Erica; Aitken, Colin. - : Elsevier, 2013
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Context, cognition, discourse, history: Peter Verdonk’s stylistics of poetry
McIntyre, Dan. - : Bloomsbury, 2013
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Clicking behavior as a possible speaker discriminant in English
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Crime through a corpus: The linguistic construction of offenders, victims and crimes in the German and UK press
Tabbert, Ulrike. - 2013
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How to talk about languages: the venues metaphor
O'Driscoll, Jim. - : Walter de Gruyter, 2013
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Reference Sample Size and the Computation of Numerical Likelihood Ratios Using Articulation Rate
Hughes, Vincent; Brereton, Ashley; Gold, Erica. - : University of York, 2013
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Aggression and perceived national face threats in Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese CMC discussion boards
Kádár, Daniel Z.; Haugh, Michael; Chang, W.. - : De Gruyter, 2013
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Relational Rituals and Communication: Ritual Interaction in Groups
Kádár, Daniel Z.. - : Palgrave Macmilan, 2013
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Pray in Early Modern English drama
Lutzky, Ursula; Demmen, Jane. - : John Benjamins, 2013
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