Instructional writing in English : studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Peikola, Matti, Skaffari, Janne, Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa, Hiltunen, Risto
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2009]
Series:	Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 189.
Subjects:	Didactic literature, English > History and criticism. English prose literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism. English prose literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching.

Table of Contents:

Approaching instructional writing in English / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Janne Skaffari and Matti Peikola
Teaching by stories: Ælfric's instructive narratives / Brita Wårvik
The WOMANual: Ancrene Wisse on instruction / Janne Skaffari
Vague language in the medieval recipes of the Forme of Cury / Ruth Carroll
Instructional aspects of the calendar in later medieval England, with special reference to the John Rylands University Library MS English 80 / Matti Peikola
Authority and instruction in two sixteenth-century medical dialogues / Irma Taavitsainen
"Proper to their sex": letter-writing instruction and epistolary model dialogues in Henry Care's The female secretary / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
(Un)becoming conduct: Cotton Mather's Ornaments for the daughters of Zion and the Salem witchcraft crisis / Kathleen L. Doty
"Instruction with delight": the narrator's voice in John Newbery's early English children's books / Lydia Kokkola
Doing what the doctor said: constructing an authoritative voice in William Buchan's Domestic medicine / Ellen Valle
Instructional writing on English: what guides the textbook writer? / Päivi Pietilä, Leena Taanila-Hall and Sonja Vainio.