Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing: Exploring Bess of Hardwick's Ma

Provides a fresh perspective on debates surrounding linguistic change in the Early Modern Period
Problematizes existing research about the evolution of prose writing and challenges assumptions about the process of standardization in English
Takes a discourse-analytic approach to prose structure that takes orality manifested in textual material into account
Accounts for the complex nature of historical data sources by considering Bess of Hardwick's use of scribes