In:Women's Epistolary Utterance: A study of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611
Graham T. Williams
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 233] 2013
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 18 September 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.233.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgementsix
1. Introduction
2. The familial backdrop: Short biographies of the Thynne women
3. ‘Mouths have become hands’: Holograph vs. scribal utterance
4. Ruling epistolary prose: Punctuation and textual-utterance markers
5. Everyday magic verbs: Performative utterances
6. Utterance, power and politeness: The letter exchange between Joan Thynne and Lucy Audley
7. Sincerity, seriousness and ironic subversions: The attitudes of utterance in the letters of Maria Thynne, c.1601–1610
8. Conclusions and future directions
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