E-Book, Englisch, Band 31, 144 Seiten
Reihe: Benjamins Current Topics
Culpeper Historical Sociopragmatics
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-8660-4
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, Band 31, 144 Seiten
Reihe: Benjamins Current Topics
ISBN: 978-90-272-8660-4
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:2 (2009), this is the first book to map out historical sociopragmatics, a multidisciplinary field located within historical pragmatics, but overlapping with socially-oriented fields, such as sociolinguistics and critical discourse analysis. Historical sociopragmatics has a central focus on historical language use in its situational contexts, and how those situational contexts engender norms which speakers engage or exploit for pragmatic purposes. The chapters represent a range of ways in which historical sociopragmatics can be understood and investigated. The reader will find English texts from the 15th century through to the 18th, a variety of genres (including personal correspondence, trial proceedings and plays), and both qualitative and (corpus-based) quantitative analyses. Importantly, attention is given to how contexts can be (re)constructed from written records, a sine qua non of the field. It will appeal to advanced-level students and scholars with interests in pragmatics, especially socially-oriented pragmatics, and/or historical linguistics, especially the history of English.
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About the Authors
vii–viii
Historical sociopragmatics: An introduction
Jonathan Culpeper
1–8
Structures and expectations: A systematic analysis of Margaret Paston's formulaic and expressive language
Johanna L. Wood
9–36
The sociopragmatics of a lovers' spat: The case of the eighteenth-century courtship letters of Mary Pierrepont and Edward Wortley
Susan M. Fitzmaurice
37–59
Altering distance and defining authority: Person reference in Late Modern English
Minna Nevala
61–82
Variation and change in patterns of self-reference in early English correspondence
Minna Palander-Collin
83–108
Identifying key sociophilological usage in plays and trial proceedings (1640-1760): An empirical approach via corpus annotation
Dawn Archer and Jonathan Culpeper
109–132
Index
133–135