1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778598803321

Titolo

Instructional writing in English [[electronic resource] ] : studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen / / edited by Matti Peikola, Janne Skaffari, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009

ISBN

1-282-24527-9

9786612245275

90-272-9048-2

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 240 p. : ill

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond new series ; ; 189

Altri autori (Persone)

PeikolaMatti

SkaffariJanne

TanskanenSanna-Kaisa

HiltunenRisto

Disciplina

820.9/353

Soggetti

Didactic literature, English - History and criticism

English prose literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

English prose literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Approaching instructional writing in English / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Janne Skaffari and Matti Peikola -- Teaching by stories: Ælfric's instructive narratives / Brita Wårvik -- The WOMANual: Ancrene Wisse on instruction / Janne Skaffari -- Vague language in the medieval recipes of the Forme of Cury / Ruth Carroll -- Instructional aspects of the calendar in later medieval England, with special reference to the John Rylands University Library ms English / Matti Peikola -- Authority and instruction in two sixteenth-century medical dialogues / Irma Taavitsainen -- Proper to their sex: letter-writing instruction and epistolary model dialogues in Henry Care's The female secretary / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen -- Instructional writing in English (un)becoming conduct: Cotton Mather's Ornaments for the daughters of



Zion and the Salem witchcraft crisis / Kathleen L. Doty -- Instruction with delight: The narrator's voice in John Newbery's early English children's books / Lydia Kokkola -- Doing what the doctor said: constructing an authoritative voice in William Buchan's Domestic medicine / Ellen Valle -- Instructional writing on English: what guides the textbook writer? / Päivi Pietilä, Leena Taanila-Hall and Sonja Vainio.