Isbn: 9781433108327 - the use of modal expression preference as a marker of style and attribution: the case of william tyndale and the 1533 english "enchiridion militis ... in linguistics and semiotics, band 76) (1 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Can an author's 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 Tyndale's The Parable of the Wicked Mammon .…