Fitzmaurice / Taavitsainen Methods in Historical Pragmatics

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019782-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 319 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

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This volume represents a timely collective review and assessment of what it is we do when we do English historical pragmatics or historical discourse analysis. The context for the volume is a critical assessment of the assumptions and practices defining the body of research conducted on the history of the English language from the perspective of historical pragmatics, broadly construed. The aim of the volume is to engage with matters of approach and method from different perspectives; accordingly, the contributions offer insights into earlier communicative practices, registers, and linguistic functions as gleaned from historical discourse.

The essays are grouped according to their orientations within the scope of the study of language and meaning in historical texts, both literary and non-literary. The structure of the volume thus represents a critical convergence of traditions of reading texts and analyzing discourse and this in turn exposes key questions about the methods and the outcomes of such readings or analyses. The volume contributes to the growing maturity of historical pragmatic research approaches as it exemplifies and extends the range of approaches and methods that dominate the research enterprise.

Contributors are prominent international scholars in the fields of linguistics, literature, and philology: Dawn Archer, Birte Bös, Laurel Brinton, Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti, James Fitzmaurice, Susan Fitzmaurice, Monika Fludernik, Andreas Jucker, Thomas Kohnen, Ursula Lenker, Lynne Magnusson, and Irma Taavitsainen.

Zielgruppe

Students and Scholars of English Studies and Pragmatics, Teachers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fitzmaurice, Susan M.

Taavitsainen, Irma

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;5
3;Introduction;7
4;Historical pragmatics: What it is and how to do it;17
5;The development of I mean: Implications for the study of historical pragmatics;43
6;Soþlice, forsoothe, truly – communicative principles and invited inferences in the history of truthintensifying adverbs in English;87
7;Speech act verbs and speech acts in the history of English;113
8;Text types and the methodology of diachronic speech act analysis;145
9;A pragmatics for interpreting Shakespeare’s Sonnets 1 to 20: Dialogue scripts and Erasmian intertexts;173
10;Developing a more detailed picture of the English courtroom (1640–1760): Data and methodological issues facing historical pragmatics;191
11;What do you lacke? what is it you buy? Early Modern English service encounters;225
12;Letters as narrative: Narrative patterns and episode structure in early letters, 1400 to 1650;247
13;Historical linguistics, literary interpretation, and the romances of Margaret Cavendish;273
14;Discoursal aspects of the Legends of Holy Women by Osbern Bokenham;291
15;Backmatter;313

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Fitzmaurice, University of Sheffield, UK; Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki, Finland.