English historical pragmatics
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English historical pragmatics
(Edinburgh textbooks on the English language / general editor, Heinz Giegerich)
Edinburgh University Press, c2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-233) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is your guide to historical pragmatics in English studies. Providing an ideal introduction to historical pragmatics, this guide gives students a solid grounding in historical pragmatics and teaches the methodology needed to analyse language in social, cultural and historical contexts. Using a number of case studies including politeness, news discourse, and scientific discourse, this book provides new insights into the analysis of discourse markers, interjections, terms of address and speech acts. Through focusing on the methodological problems in using historical data, students learn the key concepts in historical pragmatics, as well as covering recent work at the interface of between language and literature.
Table of Contents
- 1. Historical pragmatics: Communicative patterns of the past
- 2. The lack of native speakers: Data problems in historical pragmatics
- 3. Excavating usage patterns: Methods in historical pragmatics
- 4. "Or I wol crie"out, harrow and "allas!": Discourse markers and interjections
- 5. "If thou thoust him some thrice": Terms of address
- 6. "Do you wish to insult me?": Speech acts
- 7. "For your curteisie": Forms of politeness
- 8. The pragmatics of language change: Grammaticalization, subjectification and pragmaticalization
- 9. "Take a pounde of sugir and halfe a pounde of tendir roses lyues...": Genres and text types
- 10. "I pray thee friend Humfrey, what is phisicke?": Scientific and medical discourse
- 11. "Our Letters from the Levant inform us": Historical news discourse
- 12. "All of a sudden the bells ceased to chime": Narrative patterns in the course of time
- References and glossary.
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