商品簡介
Rutkowska (English, Adam Mickiewicz U., Poznan, Poland) summarizes findings of her research into the variation and consistency level in the orthographic systems of book printers in Early Modern English. The Kalendar of Shepherdes is a comprehensive compendium of prose and verse texts of various length and on a variety of subjects including astronomy, astrology, agriculture, medicine, and religion. It is a good source of information about printers' orthographic systems, she points out, because the editorial changes are introduced by the printers and publishers themselves, so there is no question of an author's influence. Among the topics are orthography and corpus linguistics, abbreviation as an interface between typography and orthography, the reduction of homography, and etymological spelling. There is no index. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Hanna Rutkowska is lecturer in the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland). Her main research interests include the history of English, Late Middle English and Early Modern English graphemics and morphosyntax, corpus linguistics, and historical sociolinguistics.