Instructional writing in English
Subtitle: studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen
By: edited by Matti Peikola, Janne Skaffari, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen.
Contributors: Peikola, Matti.; Skaffari, Janne.; Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa.
Series: Pragmatics & beyond new series -- 189
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027254245
Subjects: Didactic literature, English -- History and criticism; English prose literature -- 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Approaching instructional writing in English / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Janne Skaffari and Matti Peikola; title: Teaching by stories: Ælfric's instructive narratives / Brita Wårvik; title: The WOMANual: Ancrene Wisse on instruction / Janne Skaffari; title: Vague language in the medieval recipes of the Forme of Cury / Ruth Carroll; title: Instructional aspects of the calendar in later medieval England, with special reference to the John Rylands University Library ms English / Matti Peikola; title: Authority and instruction in two sixteenth-century medical dialogues / Irma Taavitsainen; title: "Proper to their sex": letter-writing instruction and epistolary model dialogues in Henry Care's The female secretary / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen; title: Instructional writing in English (un)becoming conduct: Cotton Mather's Ornaments for the daughters of Zion and the Salem witchcraft crisis / Kathleen L. Doty; title: "Instruction with delight": The narrator's voice in John Newbery's early English children's books / Lydia Kokkola; title: Doing what the doctor said: constructing an authoritative voice in William Buchan's Domestic medicine / Ellen Valle; title: Instructional writing on English: what guides the textbook writer? / Päivi Pietilä, Leena Taanila-Hall and Sonja Vainio.