Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English

By Judith Anderson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804726310
• ISBN13: 9780804726313
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.7"