nam a22 c 4500 pbns.220/661008718 nljbp 250625070955.3 cr ||||||||||| 131216s2012 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2012002114 9789027274618 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P99.4.P72 401/.45 23 CFG bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English A contribution to historical pragmatics Edited by Ulrich Busse and Axel Hübler Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 ©2012 1 online resource (vii, 292 pp. ) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 0922-842X 220 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction / Axel Hübler and Ulrich Busse -- 1.1 Cross-sectional studies -- Sociability / Susan Fitzmaurice -- “I write you these few lines” / Marina Dossena -- 1.2 Longitudinal studies -- Inscribed orality and the end of a discourse archive / Richard J. Watts -- Managing disputes with civility / Maurizio Gotti -- The metapragmatics of civilized belligerence / Jef Verschueren -- The metapragmatics of hoaxing / Theresa Heyd -- From speaker and hearer to chatter, 
blogger and user / Wolfram Bublitz -- Now as a text deictic feature in Late Medieval and Early Modern English medical writing / Irma Taavitsainen and Turo Hiltunen -- Performative and non-performative uses 
of speech-act verbs in the history of English / Thomas Kohnen -- Verbs of answering revisited / Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Tine Defour -- A lexical approach to paralinguistic communication of the past / Axel Hübler -- Historical evidence of communicative maxims / Alexander Brock The volume contributes to historical pragmatics an important chapter on what has so far not been paid adequate attention to, i.e. historical metapragmatics. More particularly, the collected papers apply a meta-communicative approach to historical texts by focusing on lexis that either directly or metaphorically identifies or characterizes entire forms of communication or single acts and act sequences or minor units. Within the context of their use, such lexical expressions, in fact, provide a key for disclosing historical forms of communication; taken out of context, they build the meta-communicative lexicon. The articles follow three principal distinctions in that they investigate the meta-communicative profile of genres, meta-communicative lexical sets and meta-communicative ethics and ideologies. They cover a broad spectrum of text types that span the entire history of the English language from Anglo-Saxon chronicles to computer-mediated communication. Provided by publisher. English linguistics Germanic linguistics Historical linguistics Pragmatics Busse, Ulrich editor Hübler, Axel editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 9789027256256 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.220 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027274618