Author: COMPLETE LETTER-WRITER.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Compleat Letter Writer: Or, New and Polite English Secretary ... The Third Edition Improved
Author: COMPLETE LETTER-WRITER.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Studies in Late Modern English Correspondence
Author: Marina DossenaPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039116584
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The studies presented in this volume concentrate on aspects of Late Modern English correspondence in the usage of individuals belonging to different social classes, writing for different purposes, and finding themselves in different social contexts, both in Britain and in its colonies. As the growing body of research published in recent years has shown, analysing the language of letters presents both a challenge and an opportunity to obtain access to as full a range of styles as would be possible for a period for which we only have access to the language in its written form. It is an area of study in which all the contributors have considerable expertise, which affords them to present data findings while discussing important methodological issues. In addition, in most cases data derive from specially-designed 'second-generation' corpora, reflecting state-of-the-art approaches to historical sociolinguistics and pragmatics. Theoretical issues concerning letters as a text type, their role in social network analysis, and their value in the identification of register or variety specific traits are highlighted, alongside issues concerning the (often less than easy) relationship between strictly codified norms and actual usage on the part of speakers whose level of education could vary considerably.
The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer (1763)
Author: Alain KerhervéPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152755340X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
How did people learn to write letters in the eighteenth century? Among other books, letter-writing manuals provided a possible solution. Although more than 160 editions can be traced for the eighteenth century, most manuals were largely intended for men. As a consequence, when The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer was released in London in 1763, it was the first manual to be exclusively destined for women in eighteenth-century Britain. Even though it was published anonymously, several elements tend to show that it must have been edited by Edward Kimber. It was reprinted in Dublin in 1763 and in London in 1765 and largely circulated. The reasons for its success may have come from its concern in epistolary rhetoric, its original organisation, or the entertainment provided by examples coming from different sources, among which letters by Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Mary Collier, or the Marquise de Lambert. It also provided women with a variety of subjects which were supposed to be part of their sphere of interest, and others which were not, thus questioning a number of pre-conceived ideas on women and their way of writing with or without propriety. Unedited since 1765, the manual is now presented with introduction, notes and two indices focusing on the issues of sources, society and epistolary writing.
The General Evening Post
Author: The Eighteenth Century
Author: The Complete Letter-Writer: Or, Polite English Secretary ... To which is Prefix'd, Directions for Writing Letters, in an Easy ... Manner. Also a Plain and Compendious Grammar of the English Tongue ... Fifth Edition, Improved
Author: COMPLETE LETTER-WRITERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Complete Letter-writer; Or, Polite English Secretary. Containing, Familiar Letters on the Most Common Occasions in Life ... The Eleventh Edition, Improved
Author: COMPLETE LETTER-WRITER.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Complete Letter-writer; Or, Polite English Secretary. Containing Familiar Letters on the Most Common Occasions in Life ... The Twelfth Edition, Improved
Author: COMPLETE LETTER-WRITER.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
An Easy Introduction to the Arts and Sciences ... The third edition. With considerable additions and improvements, etc. With illustrations and maps
Author: Richard TURNER (LL.D., the Younger.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description