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The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena edited by Matti Peikola Birte Bös John Benjamins Publishing Company The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena Pragmatics & Beyond New Series (P&bns) issn 0922-842X Pragmatics & Beyond New Series is a continuation of Pragmatics & Beyond and its Companion Series. The New Series offers a selection of high quality work covering the full richness of Pragmatics as an interdisciplinary field, within language sciences. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see benjamins.com/catalog/pbns Editor Associate Editor Anita Fetzer Andreas H. Jucker University of Augsburg University of Zurich Founding Editors Jacob L. Mey Herman Parret Jef Verschueren University of Southern Belgian National Science Belgian National Science Denmark Foundation, Universities of Foundation, Louvain and Antwerp University of Antwerp Editorial Board Robyn Carston Sachiko Ide Sandra A. Thompson University College London Japan Women’s University University of California at Santa Barbara Thorstein Fretheim Kuniyoshi Kataoka University of Trondheim Aichi University Teun A. van Dijk Universitat Pompeu Fabra, John C. Heritage Miriam A. Locher Barcelona University of California at Los Universität Basel Angeles Chaoqun Xie Sophia S.A. Marmaridou Zhejiang International Studies Susan C. Herring University of Athens University Indiana University Srikant Sarangi Yunxia Zhu Masako K. Hiraga Aalborg University The University of Queensland St. Paul’s (Rikkyo) University Marina Sbisà University of Trieste Volume 317 The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English Edited by Matti Peikola and Birte Bös The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English Edited by Matti Peikola University of Turku Birte Bös University of Duisburg-Essen John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. doi 10.1075/pbns.317 Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from Library of Congress: lccn 2020032620 (print) / 2020032621 (e-book) isbn 978 90 272 0788 3 (Hb) isbn 978 90 272 6055 0 (e-book) © 2020 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Company · https://benjamins.com Table of contents Acknowledgements vii Part I. Conceptualisations of text and framing phenomena Chapter 1 Framing framing: The multifaceted phenomena of paratext, metadiscourse and framing 3 Birte Bös and Matti Peikola Chapter 2 On the dynamic interaction between peritext and epitext: Punch magazine as a case study 33 Jukka Tyrkkö and Jenni Räikkönen Chapter 3 The footnote in Late Modern English historiographical writing 63 Claudia Claridge and Sebastian Wagner Chapter 4 Threshold-switching: Paratextual functions of scribal colophons in Old and Middle English manuscripts 91 Wendy Scase Chapter 5 Framing material in early literacy: Presenting literacy and its agents in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts 115 Ursula Lenker vi The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena Part II. Framing and audience orientation Chapter 6 Paratext and ideology in 17th-century news genres: A comparative discourse analysis of paratextual elements in news broadside ballads and occasional news pamphlets 137 Elisabetta Cecconi 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 163 M. Victoria Domínguez-Rodríguez and Alicia Rodríguez-Álvarez Chapter 8 “I write not to expert practitioners, but to learners”: Perceptions of reader- friendliness in early modern printed books 187 Hanna Salmi Chapter 9 Book producers’ comments on text-organisation in early 16th-century English printed paratexts 209 Mari-Liisa Varila Part III. Form and layout in framing Chapter 10 Paratextual features in 18th-century medical writing: Framing contents and expanding the text 233 Elisabetta Lonati Chapter 11 Recuperating Older Scots in the early 18th century 267 Jeremy J. Smith Chapter 12 Paratext, information studies, and Middle English manuscripts 289 Colette Moore Index 309 Acknowledgements This volume results from the fruitful discussions in the workshop on “Paratextual Communication in a Historical Perspective”, held at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Edinburgh, August 2018). We would like to thank all the contributors for enthusiastically sharing our interest in the topic and for their valuable co-operation. We are very grateful for the continued support by the series editor, Anita Fetzer, and by Isja Conen at John Benjamins. We would also like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments on a previous version of the manuscript. Finally, our thanks go to Carolin Aldick and Nora Behrendt, who, with their careful attention and devotion to detail, have been of immense help in preparing the volume for publication. Turku/Essen, May 2020 Matti Peikola and Birte Bös Part I Conceptualisations of text and framing phenomena
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