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Title: "The reader is desired to observe...": Metacomments in the prefaces to English school grammars of the eighteenth century
Authors: Domínguez-Rodríguez, M. Victoria 
Rodríguez-Álvarez, Alicia 
UNESCO Clasification: 57 Lingüística
Keywords: Eighteenth-century school grammar
Metacomment
Preface
Textual and interpersonal functions
Issue Date: 2015
Publisher: 1566-5852
Journal: Journal of Historical Pragmatics 
Abstract: The prefaces to English school grammars of the eighteenth century may be conceptualised as a frame of reference for the authorial voice behind them. To promote and boost the sales of their works, grammarians generally wrote sound, meaningful prefaces that combined propositional content with metadiscursive comments. Therefore, this kind of prefatory material falls within the scope of what Genette (1997: 1–2) calls the “paratextual apparatus” of a work, which aims to provide the reader with essential information for the correct reception, understanding and perusal of the book. This paper focuses on grammarians’ textual and interpersonal metacomments as thoughtful strategies to guide the reader carefully through the text, as well as to shape the contents and message of the book at various levels (Hyland 2000; Lorés-Sanz 2006: 92). To this end, a study corpus of fifteen English school grammars has been retrieved from the ECEG Database (2010) by restricting two search parameters: target audience and authors’ place of birth.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/42796
ISSN: 1566-5852
DOI: 10.1075/jhp.16.1.04dom
Source: Journal of Historical Pragmatics[ISSN 1566-5852],v. 16(1), p. 86-108
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