Early Modern English Dialogues: Spoken Interaction as Writing

Acknowledgements List of figures List of tables 1. Introduction 2. Dialogic genres and their contexts 3. The multiple contexts and multiple discourses of dialogic genres 4. The structures of spoken face-to-face interaction and writing 5. Lexical bundles 6. Lexical repetitions 7. Cohesion: the case of AND 8. Grammatical variation 9. An introduction to pragmatic noise 10. Pragmatic noise: a survey of functions and contexts in Early Modern English comedy plays 11. Pragmatic noise: variation and change in the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560-1760 12. Pragmatic noise: meanings and their development 13. Social variation in interaction: representing identities 14. The distribution of talk: social roles in trial…