Words that Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English
- ISBN-10
- 0804726310
- ISBN-13
- 9780804726313
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 338
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Author
- Judith H. Anderson
Description
The grammar and rhetoric of Tudor and Stuart England prioritized words and word-like figures rather than sentences, a prioritizing that had significant consequences for linguistic representation. Examining a wide range of historical sources?treatises, grammars, poems, plays, rhetorics, logics, dictionaries, and sermons?the author investigates how words matter as currency or memento, graphic symbol or template, icon or topos.
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