The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical Approaches to Paratext and Metadiscourse in English

323 Pages·2020·22.383 MB·English

by  Matti Peikola (editor), Birte Bös (editor)

The Dynamics of
Text and Framing
Phenomena
edited by
Matti Peikola
Birte Bös
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The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena
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Anita Fetzer Andreas H. Jucker
University of Augsburg University of Zurich
Founding Editors
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University of Southern Belgian National Science Belgian National Science
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Robyn Carston Sachiko Ide Sandra A. Thompson
University College London Japan Women’s University University of California at
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Thorstein Fretheim Kuniyoshi Kataoka
University of Trondheim Aichi University Teun A. van Dijk
Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
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Zhejiang International Studies
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The University of Queensland
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Marina Sbisà
University of Trieste

Volume 317
The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena
Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English
Edited by Matti Peikola and Birte Bös
The Dynamics of Text
and Framing Phenomena
Historical approaches to paratext
and metadiscourse in English
Edited by
Matti Peikola
University of Turku
Birte Bös
University of Duisburg-Essen
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements vii
Part I. Conceptualisations of text and framing phenomena
Chapter 1
Framing framing: The multifaceted phenomena of paratext, metadiscourse
and framing 3
Birte Bös and Matti Peikola
Chapter 2
On the dynamic interaction between peritext and epitext: Punch magazine
as a case study 33
Jukka Tyrkkö and Jenni Räikkönen
Chapter 3
The footnote in Late Modern English historiographical writing 63
Claudia Claridge and Sebastian Wagner
Chapter 4
Threshold-switching: Paratextual functions of scribal colophons in
Old and Middle English manuscripts 91
Wendy Scase
Chapter 5
Framing material in early literacy: Presenting literacy and its agents in
Anglo-Saxon manuscripts 115
Ursula Lenker
vi The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena
Part II. Framing and audience orientation
Chapter 6
Paratext and ideology in 17th-century news genres: A comparative
discourse analysis of paratextual elements in news broadside ballads
and occasional news pamphlets 137
Elisabetta Cecconi
Chapter 7
“All which I offer with my own experience”: An approach to persuasive
advertising strategies in the prefatory matter of 17th-century English
midwifery treatises 163
M. Victoria Domínguez-Rodríguez and Alicia Rodríguez-Álvarez
Chapter 8
“I write not to expert practitioners, but to learners”: Perceptions of reader-
friendliness in early modern printed books 187
Hanna Salmi
Chapter 9
Book producers’ comments on text-organisation in early 16th-century
English printed paratexts 209
Mari-Liisa Varila
Part III. Form and layout in framing
Chapter 10
Paratextual features in 18th-century medical writing: Framing contents
and expanding the text 233
Elisabetta Lonati
Chapter 11
Recuperating Older Scots in the early 18th century 267
Jeremy J. Smith
Chapter 12
Paratext, information studies, and Middle English manuscripts 289
Colette Moore
Index 309
Acknowledgements
This volume results from the fruitful discussions in the workshop on “Paratextual
Communication in a Historical Perspective”, held at the 20th International
Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Edinburgh, August 2018). We
would like to thank all the contributors for enthusiastically sharing our interest in
the topic and for their valuable co-operation.
We are very grateful for the continued support by the series editor, Anita
Fetzer, and by Isja Conen at John Benjamins. We would also like to thank the two
anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments on a previous version of
the manuscript. Finally, our thanks go to Carolin Aldick and Nora Behrendt, who,
with their careful attention and devotion to detail, have been of immense help in
preparing the volume for publication.
Turku/Essen, May 2020
Matti Peikola and Birte Bös

Part I
Conceptualisations of text
and framing phenomena