Historical pragmatics : pragmatic developments in the history of English
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Historical pragmatics : pragmatic developments in the history of English
(Pragmatics & beyond : new series, 35)
John Benjamins, c1995
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Dimensions of later printing: 25 cm
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Until very recently, pragmatics has been restricted to the analysis of contemporary spoken language while historical linguistics has studied historical texts and language change in a decontextualized way. This has now radically changed and scholars from around the world are trying to build a new theoretical framework that integrates recent advances both in pragmatics and in historical linguistics.
The volume, which contains 22 original articles, starts with an introduction that is both a state-of-the-art account of historical pragmatics and a programmatic statement of its future potential and its different subfields.
Part I contains seven pragmaphilological papers that deal with historical texts and their interpretations by paying close attention to the communicative context of these texts.
The second and third parts comprise papers in diachronic pragmatics. The ten papers of part II take a linguistic form as their starting point, e.g. particular lexical items or syntactic constructions, and study their pragmatic functions at different times (diachronic form-to-function mappings), while the four papers of part III take a particular pragmatic function as their starting point, e.g. discourse strategies or politeness, and study their linguistic realisation at different times (diachronic function-to-form mappings).
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface
- 2. List of Contributors
- 3. Introduction
- 4. The historical Perspective in Pragmatics (by Jacobs, Andreas)
- 5. Pragmaphilology
- 6. The Openness of Medieval Texts (by Bergner, Heinz)
- 7. They Had Thier Points: Punctaution and Interpretation in English Renaissance Literature (by Ronberg, Gert)
- 8. Punctuation: And- 'Pragmatics' (by Lennard, John)
- 9. A Close Reading of William Caxton's Dialogues: "... to lerne Shortly frenssh and englyssh" (by Hullen, Werner)
- 10. Wills and Will-Making in 16th and 17th Century England: Some Pragmatic Aspects (by Bach, Ulrich)
- 11. Justifying Grammars: A Socio-Pragmatic Foray into the Discourse Community of Early English Grammatians (by Watts, Richard J.)
- 12. Communicative Clues in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (by Navarro-Errasti, M. Pilar)
- 13. Diachronic form-to-function mapping
- 14. Pragmatic Maxims in Explanations of Language Change? (by Pinto De Lima, Jose)
- 15. Pragmatic Constraints to Word Order, and Word-Order Change in English (by Bernardez, Enrique)
- 16. The Semantic and Pragmatic Development of Substitutive Complex Prepositions in English (by Schwenter, Scott A.)
- 17. On Doing as You Please (by Allen, Cynthia L.)
- 18. Your Average Generalisations: A Case-Study in Historical Pragmatics (by Wales, Katie)
- 19. Demonstratives in Early Modern English Letters (by Kryk-Kastovsky, Barbara)
- 20. The Ambiguous Adverbial/Conjunctions pa and ponne in Middle English: A Discourse-Pragmatic Study of then and when in Early English Saints' Lives (by Warvik, Brita)
- 21. Middle English po and other Narrative Discourse Markers (by Fludernik, Monika)
- 22. Diachronic Analysis of Japanese Discourse Markers (by Onodera, Noriko O.)
- 23. Interjections in Early Modern English: From Imitation of Spoken to Conventions of Written Language (by Taavitsainen, Irma)
- 24. Diachronic function-to-form mapping
- 25. Topics in the History of Dialogue forms (by Fritz, Gerd)
- 26. "Then I saw to antique heddes": Discourse Strategies in Early Modern English Travelogues (by Virtanen, Tuija)
- 27. Linguistic Politeness Strategies in Shakespeare's Plays (by Kopytko, Roman)
- 28. Constraints on Politeness: The Pragmatics of Address Formulae in Early English Correspondance (by Nevalainen, Terttu)
- 29. Index of Names and Sources
- 30. Index of Subjects
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