Written Reliquaries
：The resonance of orality in medieval English texts
( Pragmatics & Beyond New Series )
Publication subTitle ：The resonance of orality in medieval English texts
Publication series ： Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
Author： Leslie K. Arnovick
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2006
E-ISBN: 9789027292841
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027253965
Subject： H019 method of recitation, elocution
Language： ENG
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Description
Taken as a whole, this book is a lively experiment in the application of pragmatics and oral theory to medieval texts, both extra-literary and literary. It employs hostorical pragmatics and aspectsof oral theory as complementary analytical approaches to aspects of speech in charms and to textualized utterances in Chaucer. Arnovick writes in an exuberant, colourful and metaphorical style [...]