Historical Sociopragmatics
Lancaster University
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.
[Benjamins Current Topics, 31]
2011.
vii, 135 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Hardbound – Available
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9789027202505
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EUR
80.00
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120.00
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9789027286604
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80.00
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Table of Contents
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About the Authors
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vii–viii
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Historical sociopragmatics: An introduction
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1–8
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Structures and expectations: A systematic analysis of Margaret Paston's formulaic and expressive language
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9–36
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The sociopragmatics of a lovers' spat: The case of the eighteenth-century courtship letters of Mary Pierrepont and Edward Wortley
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37–59
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Altering distance and defining authority: Person reference in Late Modern English
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61–82
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Variation and change in patterns of self-reference in early English correspondence
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83–108
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Identifying key sociophilological usage in plays and trial proceedings (1640-1760): An empirical approach via corpus annotation
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109–132
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Index
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133–135
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“This is the first book to map out historical socio-pragmatics [...]. Overall, it could be said that the aim of the book, namely to raise the profile of historical sociopragmatics, give it more solidity and inspire future research efforts, has been achieved. [...] The selection and order of contributions results in a coherent and comprehensive volume of cutting-edge research. The range of methodologies employed and spectrum of linguistic features investigated make this volume a valuable resource for scholars in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, socio-pragmatics, social history and the history of English who want to familiarize themselves with recent methodological advances in the field. By offering a wide range of approaches and methodologies, the book opens the way to future research in the field of historical socio-pragmatics.”
Lelija Socanac, University of Zagreb, Croatia, on Linguist List 22.4944
Subjects
Benjamins Subject classification
Linguistics
Sociology
BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2011014343