Alicia Rodríguez-Álvarez Rodríguez
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alicia Rodríguez-Álvarez Rodríguez is involved.
Articles
2020 Chapter 7. “All which I offer with my own experience”: An approach to persuasive advertising strategies in the prefatory matter of 17th-century English midwifery treatises The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English, Peikola, Matti and Birte Bös (eds.), pp. 163–185 | Chapter
In 17th-century England, a growing popular interest in medical literature brought with it a significant editorial boom in the field. This meant that the number of midwifery treatises published gradually increased, resulting in strong competition for a place in the sales market. Authors, editors… read more
2018 Cataloguing the First Histories of the English Language Written from the Late 16th to the End of the 18th Century Historiographia Linguistica 45:1/2, pp. 99–132 | Article
Most studies on the first histories of the English language go as far back as the 19th century, and dismiss earlier historical accounts of the language. However, 17th- and 18th-century short histories of the English language provide valuable insight into information layout, periodisation… read more
2015 “The reader is desired to observe…”: Metacomments in the prefaces to English school grammars of the eighteenth century Journal of Historical Pragmatics 16:1, pp. 86–108 | Article
The prefaces to English school grammars of the eighteenth century may be conceptualised as a frame of reference for the authorial voice behind them. To promote and boost the sales of their works, grammarians generally wrote sound, meaningful prefaces that combined propositional content with… read more