Impression management in the Early Modern English courtroom

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts

The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts, compiled at the Chemnitz University of Technology, has recently been completed and will shortly be available through ICAME and the Oxford Text Archive. The following article gives a brief outline of the corpus set-up and its coding conventions, and places it within its historical and corpus-linguistic background. For a more detailed account of...

Thank you and thanks in Early Modern English

Linguistic DNA: Investigating Conceptual Change in Early Modern English Discourse

This article describes the background and premises of the AHRCfunded project, ‘The Linguistic DNA of Modern Western Thought’. We offer an empirical, encyclopaedic approach to historical semantics regarding ‘conceptual history’, i.e. the history of concepts that shape thought, culture and society in a particular period. We relate the project to traditional work in conceptual and semantic history...

Real Stress change and phonological variation in early Modern English

In this paper, I propose a dynamic approach to the origin and development of the English Stress Rule (ESR), with special attention to late Middle English and early Modern English. My main aim consists in determining (i) the historical relations of this rule with two of its predecessors through the analysis of competing phonological rules and (ii) the patterns of phonological variation thereby c...