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10 - Women’s Spelling in Early Modern English

Perspectives from New Media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2020

Marco Condorelli
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University of Central Lancashire, Preston
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This chapter aims to demonstrate the importance of spelling analysis at the micro-level, by examining the spelling practices of early modern women letter-writers through the lens of new media research. The authors offer an innovative perspective on English spelling practices that considers historical variation using concepts initially developed for new media writing. The examination of spelling in terms of micro-level practices offers new insights into the development of English spelling, especially in respect of finding thematic and functional correlations, as well as potential continuities between sixteenth- and twenty-first-century orthographic practices. The chapter draws on the combined expertise of its authors in the language of new media and Early Modern English to provide a new reading of spelling variation at the micro-level.

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Print publication year: 2020

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