Transparently Hierarchical: Punctuation in the Townshend Family Recipe Book

The three scribes of a mid-seventeenth-century collection of medical recipes resemble each other in how they have punctuated the recipes, although they did not work simultaneously. They draw on similar repertoires of marks and they mark similar functions, but they do not use the same marks for the s...

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Autor: Thaisen, Jacob
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Murcia
Repositorio:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia
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Standardisation
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spelling Transparently Hierarchical: Punctuation in the Townshend Family Recipe BookThaisen, JacobPunctuationStandardisationEarly Modern EnglishText-typeMedical recipeManuscriptCDU::8- Lingüística y literatura::81 - Lingüística y lenguasThe three scribes of a mid-seventeenth-century collection of medical recipes resemble each other in how they have punctuated the recipes, although they did not work simultaneously. They draw on similar repertoires of marks and they mark similar functions, but they do not use the same marks for the same functions. The principal function is the global one of indicating where the constitutive elements of the recipes begin and end. This function of indicating a text’s structural hierarchy goes back centuries and can seem old-fashioned for an Early Modern English manuscript produced when grammarians had started to discuss whether punctuation should mark syntactic units. A key observation is that recipes stand out among text-types by having a fixed, transparently hierarchical structure. This feature of them facilitates the researcher’s appreciation of how the punctuation functions and dismisses any impression of the scribes having deployed the marks haphazardly.Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones202120212020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdf20application/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.393481http://hdl.handle.net/10201/100345reponame:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murciainstname:Universidad de MurciaInglésSin financiación externa a la Universidadhttps://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/393481/291211info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/oai:digitum.um.es:10201/1003452026-05-27T12:40:41Z
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title Transparently Hierarchical: Punctuation in the Townshend Family Recipe Book
spellingShingle Transparently Hierarchical: Punctuation in the Townshend Family Recipe Book
Thaisen, Jacob
Punctuation
Standardisation
Early Modern English
Text-type
Medical recipe
Manuscript
CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura::81 - Lingüística y lenguas
title_short Transparently Hierarchical: Punctuation in the Townshend Family Recipe Book
title_full Transparently Hierarchical: Punctuation in the Townshend Family Recipe Book
title_fullStr Transparently Hierarchical: Punctuation in the Townshend Family Recipe Book
title_full_unstemmed Transparently Hierarchical: Punctuation in the Townshend Family Recipe Book
title_sort Transparently Hierarchical: Punctuation in the Townshend Family Recipe Book
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Punctuation
Standardisation
Early Modern English
Text-type
Medical recipe
Manuscript
CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura::81 - Lingüística y lenguas
topic Punctuation
Standardisation
Early Modern English
Text-type
Medical recipe
Manuscript
CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura::81 - Lingüística y lenguas
description The three scribes of a mid-seventeenth-century collection of medical recipes resemble each other in how they have punctuated the recipes, although they did not work simultaneously. They draw on similar repertoires of marks and they mark similar functions, but they do not use the same marks for the same functions. The principal function is the global one of indicating where the constitutive elements of the recipes begin and end. This function of indicating a text’s structural hierarchy goes back centuries and can seem old-fashioned for an Early Modern English manuscript produced when grammarians had started to discuss whether punctuation should mark syntactic units. A key observation is that recipes stand out among text-types by having a fixed, transparently hierarchical structure. This feature of them facilitates the researcher’s appreciation of how the punctuation functions and dismisses any impression of the scribes having deployed the marks haphazardly.
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