nam a22 4500 z.162/574007537 nljbp 240918104838.6 tz 141111s2011 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2010053987 9789027211804 (Hardbound) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp KD612 349.42 22 CF/2AB bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Kyto, Merja author Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED) Merja Kytö, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 ©2011 382 pages xxi, 360 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom) 245 mm. x 164mm. text txt rdacontent Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 1. Introduction / Merja Kytö, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker -- 2. Genre characteristics / Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker -- 3. Historical context / Terry Walker -- 4. Legal background / Terry Walker -- 5. Scribes and scribal practices / Peter J. Grund -- 6. The languages of the depositions / Peter J. Grund -- 7. Linguistic variation and change in the depositions / Terry Walker and Merja Kytö -- 8. ETED: Distribution versions, editorial principles, and viewing and search options / Merja Kytö -- 9. Conclusion / Merja Kytö, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England examines various aspects of the witness depositions comprising An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED) on the accompanying CD-ROM. ETED combines modern corpus linguistic methodology and editorial theory, and makes available faithful transcriptions of 905 depositions drawn from manuscripts from different areas of early modern England. The depositions, which total c. 267,000 words, cover testimony by men and women of different ages and social strata. In order to cater to a variety of uses and users, the ETED CD-ROM provides the depositions in five electronic formats (XML, resolved XML, HTML, TXT and PDF), as well as a data retrieval program and a number of support files. The book explores the genre, the socio-historical and legal background, and the language of depositions. Together with the book, ETED constitutes a significant resource for researchers of corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics and historical sociolinguistics, and for social and legal historians. Provided by publisher. Corpus linguistics Discourse studies Electronic/Multimedia Products English linguistics Forensic & legal linguistics Historical linguistics Pragmatics Kytö, Merja author Grund, Peter J. author Walker, Terry author DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/z.162 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027211804