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Text Types and the History of English
By Manfred Görlach
350 pages
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- Mouton de Gruyter
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Synopsis
The book comprises methodological reflexions on form, content and function in a comprehensive description of text types/genres. These considerations are then exemplified in detail by analyses of individual types such as cooking recipes, book dedications, advertisements, jokes, and church hymns. The transfer of types and the range of existing types are described for Scotland and for India. The description is completed by a summary list of some 2100 text types with definitions and their documentation ...
The book comprises methodological reflexions on form, content and function in a comprehensive description of text types/genres. These considerations are then exemplified in detail by analyses of individual types such as cooking recipes, book dedications, advertisements, jokes, and church hymns. The transfer of types and the range of existing types are described for Scotland and for India. The description is completed by a summary list of some 2100 text types with definitions and their documentation in the history of English.
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Table of contents
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- Text Types and the History of English i
- Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 139 ii
- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- List of Figures ix
- List of Texts x
- List of Facsimiles xi
- Abbreviations xiii
- Foreword xv
- 1 - Preface 1
- 2 - A History of Text Types: a Componential Analysis 3
- 3 - Text Types and the Linguistic History of Modern English 9 99
- 4 - Text Types and Language History: the Cooking Recipe 15 121
- 5 - A Linguistic History of Advertising 16 141
- 6 - @ 163
- 7 - Lexical Entries 175
- Text Types and the History of English i
- Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 139 ii
- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- List of Figures ix
- List of Texts x
- List of Facsimiles xi
- Abbreviations xiii
- Foreword xv
- 1 - Preface 1
- 2 - A History of Text Types: a Componential Analysis 3
- 3 - Text Types and the Linguistic History of Modern English 9 99
- 4 - Text Types and Language History: the Cooking Recipe 15 121
- 5 - A Linguistic History of Advertising 16 141
- 6 - @ 163
- 7 - Lexical Entries 175
- 8 - Linguistic Aspects of Jokes 181
- 9 - Text Types and the History of Scots 201
- 10 - Text Types and Indian English 225
- 11 - Facsimiles 253
- Bibliography 309
- Index of Persons 323
- Index of Topics, Terms, Places and Anonymous Works 326
- Index of Words and Phrases 331