"This volume explores the complex relations of texts and their contextualising elements, drawing particularly on the notions of paratext, metadiscourse and framing. It aims at developing a more comprehensive historical understanding of these phenomena, covering a wide time span, from Old English to the 20th century, in a range of historical genres and, contexts of text production, mediation and consumption. However, more fundamentally, it also seeks to expand our conception of text and the communicative 'spaces' surrounding them, and probe the explanatory potential of the concepts under investigation. Though essentially rooted in historical linguistics and philology, the twelve contributions of this volume also are open to insights from other disciplines (such as medieval manuscript studies and bibliography, but also information studies, marketing studies, and even digital electronics), and thus tackle opportunities and challenges in researching the dynamics of text and framing phenomena in a historical perspective"--.

• The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgements
• Part I. Conceptualisations of text and framing phenomena
• 1. Framing framing: The multifaceted phenomena of paratext, metadiscourse and framing
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 Genette’s notion of paratext
    • 1.2 Central questions of the volume
  • 2. ‘Paratext, metadiscourse’ and ‘framing’ – relating the core concepts of the volume
    • 2.1 Paratext in a prototype perspective
    • 2.2 Paratext and metadiscourse
    • 2.3 Paratext and framing
    • 2.4 Functional classifications of paratext, metadiscourse and framing
  • 3. Contextualising the dynamics of text and framing phenomena
    • 3.1 Prototypical examples
      • 3.1.1 Linguistic prototypicality: Genre conventions
      • 3.1.2 Visual and material prototypicality
    • 3.2 From prototypicality to periphery
      • 3.2.1 Flagging issues
      • 3.2.2 Different levels of paratextual communication
      • 3.2.3 Status of elements in compilations
      • 3.2.4 Entextualisation
      • 3.2.5 Media shifts and modes of production
  • 4. The contributions to the present volume
  • Primary sources
  • Secondary sources
• 2. On the dynamic interaction between peritext and epitext: ‘Punch’ magazine as a case study
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical background
    • 2.1 Defining text
    • 2.2 Paratext and linguistic analysis
  • 3. ‘Punch’ magazine
    • 3.1 ‘Punch, or the London Charivari’
    • 3.2 Creating the Punch corpus
    • 3.3 Distribution of content types
  • 4. The peritextual and epitextual features of ‘Punch’ magazine: Two examples
    • 4.1 The cartoons
    • 4.2 Mr. Punch
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Primary sources
  • Secondary sources
• 3. The footnote in Late Modern English historiographical writing
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Footnotes – paratext – metadiscourse
  • 3. Historiography and footnotes
  • 4. Data and methodology
  • 5. Text-note linking: Functions
  • 6. Authorial positioning in footnotes
    • 6.1 Evaluation in footnotes
    • 6.2 Authors and readers in interaction
  • 7. Discussion and conclusion
  • Primary sources
  • Secondary sources
• 4. Threshold-switching: Paratextual functions of scribal colophons in Old and Middle English manuscripts
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Approaches to paratexts in medieval manuscripts
  • 3. Genette’s framework: Applications and adaptations
  • 4. Genette’s model and medieval scribal colophons
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Primary sources
  • Secondary sources
• 5. Framing material in early literacy: Presenting literacy and its agents in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
  • 1. Anglo-Saxon literacy: The surviving evidence
  • 2. Paratexts from Anglo-Saxon England: Paucity of evidence
  • 3. Investing vernacular literacy with authority in Alfredian and Ælfrician prefaces
    • 3.1 The conceptualization of prefaces as a threshold
    • 3.2 The Alfredian prefaces
    • 3.3 Framing in Ælfric’s prefaces
  • 4. Terminal framing material in manuscripts: The communicative functions of Anglo-Saxon scribal colophons
    • 4.1 Anglo-Saxon scribal colophons: Presenting the agents of literacy
    • 4.2 Prosopopoeia: Not only scribes, but books speak
    • 4.3 Colophons as micro-texts
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Secondary sources
• Part II. Framing and audience orientation
• 6. Paratext and ideology in 17th-century news genres: A comparative discourse analysis of paratextual elements in news broadside ballads and occasional news pamphlets
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical framework
  • 3. Data and methodology
  • 4. Broadsides and pamphlets
  • 5. Analysis of paratext in 17th-century broadside ballads and pamphlets
    • 5.1 Headlines
    • 5.2 Proto-lead
    • 5.3 Woodcuts
    • 5.4 Tunes and imprints
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Primary sources
  • Secondary sources
• 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
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Selected study material
  • 3. Prefatory matter as a space for persuasion and marketing: Models of analysis
  • 4. Analysis
    • 4.1 Ethos, or author-based persuasive strategies
      • 4.1.1 Expertise or competence
      • 4.1.2 Trustworthiness
    • 4.2 Pathos, or reader-based persuasive strategies
    • 4.3 Logos, or text-based persuasive strategies
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • Funding
  • Primary sources
  • Secondary sources
• 8. “I write not to expert practitioners, but to learners”: Perceptions of reader-friendliness in early modern printed books
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Paratexts and metadiscourse
  • 3. Materials and methods
  • 4. Features contributing to reader-friendliness
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Primary sources
  • Secondary sources
• 9. Book producers’ comments on text-organisation in early 16th-century English printed paratexts
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Metadiscourse and paratext
  • 3. Text-organisation in 16th-century print
  • 4. The present study
  • 5. Text-organisation on title-pages
    • 5.1 References to the organisation of the main text
    • 5.2 References to paratext
  • 6. Text-organisation in prefaces
    • 6.1 Developing the paratextual frame
    • 6.2 Text-critical comments
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Primary sources
  • Secondary sources
• Part III. Form and layout in framing
• 10. Paratextual features in 18th-century medical writing: Framing contents and expanding the text
  • 1. Aim of the study
  • 2. Sources and method
    • Primary sources
    • Secondary sources
  • 3. Paratext
  • 4. Structure of the study
  • 5. Medicine and dissemination: ‘Experiential’ and ‘disciplinary’ issues in handbooks
    • 5.1 Group 1.: Front matter: Basic pattern
    • 5.2 Group 2. A. Front matter: Complex pattern
    • 5.3 Group 2. B. Back matter: Indexes, glossaries and appendices
      • 5.3.1 Indexes
      • 5.3.2 Glossaries
      • 5.3.3 Appendices
  • 6. Final remarks
  • Primary sources
  • Secondary sources
• 11. Recuperating Older Scots in the early 18th century
  • 1. A Jacobite community of practice
  • 2. Allan Ramsay’s ‘The Ever Green’ (1724)
  • 3. Thomas Ruddiman’s edition of Douglas’s ‘Eneados’ (1710)
  • 4. One community, two practices …
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Primary sources
  • Primary sources
• 12. Paratext, information studies, and Middle English manuscripts
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The framework of information studies
  • 3. Peritextual structure and information studies in manuscripts of the ‘Brut’
    • 3.1 Introduction to the ‘Brut’ Chronicle
    • 3.2 Headings
    • 3.3 Paraph marks
    • 3.4 Clause structure marking of given and new information
    • 3.5 Ruling
  • 4. Analytic models
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Primary sources
  • Secondary sources
• Index