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The Use of Modal Expression Preference as a Marker of Style and Attribution - The Case of William Tyndale and the 1533 English "Enchiridion Militis Christiani

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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 .

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The Author: Elizabeth Bell Canon holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Georgia. She is currently Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse.

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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.

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Authors Elizabeth Bell Canon
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.06.2016
 
EAN 9781433108327
ISBN 978-1-4331-0832-7
No. of pages 169
Dimensions 150 mm x 13 mm x 225 mm
Weight 357 g
Series Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics
Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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