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Book producers’ comments on text-organisation in early 16th-century English printed paratexts




AuthorsVarila Mari-Liisa

EditorsPeikola Matti, Bös Birte

Publishing placeAmsterdam

Publication year2020

Book title The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena. Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English

Series titlePragmatics & Beyond New Series

Number in series317

First page 209

Last page229

ISBN978-9-02-720788-3

eISBN978-9-02-726055-0

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.317.09var

Web address https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.317

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/50044955


Abstract

This chapter focuses on book producers' metadiscourse related to text-organisation in 16th-century English printed paratexts. Paratexts offered authors, translators, and printers a convenient space for instructing the reader in navigating the contents of the book at hand. Choices related to text-organisation were occasionally highlighted on the title-page and described in more detail in prefaces or letters to the reader. In this chapter, I examine title-pages and prefaces to find out how book producers justified and clarified their methods of structuring text and information and whether text-organisation was used as a selling point in the early period of print in England.


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