Abstract
Abstract
This article is concerned with “speech descriptors”, markers that describe or evaluate the nature of represented
speech, such as very modestly in “The Gentlewoman very modestly bade him welcome” (CED, D2FKIT). The form,
frequency and function of such features are charted in Early Modern English prose fiction, drawn from A Corpus of English
Dialogues 1560–1760, and the results are compared to those of Grund
(2017a), which considers speech descriptors in contemporaneous witness depositions. The comparison reveals generic
differences and points to the importance of studying speech descriptors for our understanding of the dynamics of speech
representation in the history of English.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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