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Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types
Edited by Luisella Caon, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck
[
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
364] 2024
► pp.
251
–
253
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previous
Index
A
abbreviation
188–193, 205, 215, 217–219, 239–244
ad socordiam
93–94, 96–98
Andreas
(OE text)
1
animacy graphematics
33–34, 36–38, 40–42, 50–51, 54
B
Beowulf
(OE text)
1
Bill of Rights
86, 89, 90, 98
C
Canterbury Tales
(ME text)
15, 23
capitalization, (generic and sentence-internal capitalization)
33–54, 192–194, 205, 219
community of practice
130, 136
colloquialization
154, 156–158, 165, 173–174
comedy
60–81
conduct
130, 132–138, 140–142, 146–150
Cooperative Principle
88, 96–97
copying practices
180–197
corpora
A Corpus of Late Modern English Prose
198
A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers
(
ARCHER
)
155, 158
Corpora of Early English Correspondence
(CEEC)
160–161
Corpus of Contemporary English Legal Decisions, 1950
–
2021
(
CoCELD
)
102, 106–107, 109–120
Corpus of Early English Correspondence
(CEEC)
159, 162, 198
Corpus of English Dialogues
(
CED
)
15, 24–27
Corpus of Historical English Law Reports, 1535–1999
(
CHELAR
)
102, 104–106, 109–118, 120
Corpus of Late Modern English Texts
(
CLMET
)
15, 21, 24–29, 34, 40–44, 54
Corpus of Nineteenth-Century English
(
CONCE
)
15, 26–28
Early English Books Online
(
EEBO
)
14, 16–17, 34, 40–44, 54
Eighteenth-Century Collections Online
(
ECCO
)
14, 16, 64
Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots
(
HCOS
)
229
Literature Online
(
LION
)
64
Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence
(
PCEEC
)
155, 158, 161–162, 165–166
Political Opposition, Loyalty and Indifference in Texts from Eighteenth-Century Scotland
(
POLITECS
)
230–232, 236, 249
Tagged Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension
(
TCEECE
)
155, 159, 161–166, 173, 175
The Mary Hamilton Papers corpus
194
correspondence
62, 70, 154–155, 157–158, 180–197, 225–228, 230, 239–241, 242–244 ;
see also
letter writing, private correspondence
covert intentions
75, 86, 92–95, 97, 98
culture of medicine
131
D
deceptive communication
60, 75, 80, 86–89, 94, 96–98
degree words
19, 21–22, 27, 29
derivational morphology
101–122
diaries
182, 186–187
dictionaries
Oxford English Dictionary
(
OED
)
11, 14–17, 21–22, 27, 29, 87, 92, 114, 125, 215, 217, 219–220
Samuel Johnson’s
A Dictionary of the English Language
(1755) (
DEL
)
131, 136, 138, 147, 205
discourse analysis
86
discourse
129, 130, 133, 136, 138, 148–150
manipulative
96
metalinguistic
44–54
legal
101–105, 107, 110, 121, 235, 237, 240–241
downtoners
11–12, 19, 27, 30
dramatic literature
25, 30, 36 60–81, 156, 158
Dutch
34–35, 37, 39–40
duty
129–150
E
Early Modern English (EModE)
13, 24, 46
Englishes
British English (BrE)
16, 60–81
epistemic vigilance
95
ethics
14, 129–132, 134–135, 137–138, 142, 148–152
F
Foundling Hospital
198–224
French
35, 70–71, 111
G
gender
60–81, 154–155, 158–160, 164–165, 167, 172–174, 205
genre evolution
154, 158, 172–174
German
34–40, 42, 44, 46, 53–54
grammar books
40, 44–53, 173, 205
grammarians
33–35, 37, 39, 46, 50, 52, 61, 63, 198
grammaticography
37, 46–47
H
Hamilton, Mary
180–197
hedging strategies
30
historical pragmatics
30, 86
historical sociolinguistics
154, 160, 228, 241, 243
hospital
130, 132–133, 137, 143, 146–147, 149, 151 ;
see also
community of practice
I
identity politics
226, 228, 241
implicature
22, 88, 96
indexical field
62, 68, 76–81, 226, 228
information visualization
175
informational style
103, 105, 116–117, 155, 157–160, 164, 166, 175
inter-writer variation
225–226, 228, 231, 243–244
intra-writer variation
228–244
involved style
30, 105–117, 155–160, 162, 164–166, 168–169, 174
irony
12–13, 27
J
Jackson, James
91–93, 95–98
Johnson, Samuel
131, 136, 138, 150, 206 ;
see also
dictionaries
judicial decisions
101–102, 104–107, 109–110, 112–113, 115–117, 119, 121–122
L
Late Modern English (LModE)
13–14, 150, 152, 174, 180–197, 198, 203, 205, 218, 220
letter writing
27, 30, 39, 154–175, 180–197, 198, 200, 205, 206, 213, 215, 217, 222, 244 ;
see also
correspondence, private correspondence
letter-writing manuals
173, 199–200, 203–204, 207, 214, 219, 220, 222
lexical
network
129–130, 134
strengthening
239
bundles
235, 237, 239
pairs
142
lexicalization
129–130, 140–142, 144, 148–149
lexis
129, 148
litotes
10, 12–14, 18, 24
Lowth, Robert
36, 61–62, 64, 66, 69, 71, 80, 190–191, 205–206, 215, 222–223
M
Madison, James
89–91, 95, 96, 98
maxims
quality
88–89, 96–97
quantity
88–89, 96–97
flouting
88–89, 96–97
medical education
134
medical ethics
129–132, 134, 137–138, 142, 148, 150
medical profession
130, 136, 144, 149–150
medical writing
112, 129–150
medico gentility
131, 133, 144
meiosis
11, 14, 16–17, 19, 29
metalinguistic approach
14, 15–21, 29–30
metapragmatic marking
21–22
Meters of Boethius
(OE text)
1
Middle English (ME)
13, 23, 30, 180–181, 229
mitigation
12–13, 17, 20, 25
morality
14, 74, 129–135, 137–138, 140, 143–144, 148–149
N
negation
12–13, 19, 21–27, 30, 75
nominalization
34–35, 49, 101–126, 156
normative linguistics
60–81
O
office
129–130, 132–138, 140–150 ;
see also
medical ethics
Old English (OE)
1, 10, 13, 126
orthography
33, 36, 39, 49, 54, 225–226, 229, 232, 234–235, 238–239, 241
overstatement
15–16
P
part-of-speech frequencies
154–155, 161–162, 164, 173
petition forms, filled-in
198–224
petitions, hand-drafted
198–224
plain language movement
104–106, 122
politics, language of
92, 93, 98, 225–227, 230–237, 241, 244
pragmatics
86, 89
prescriptivism
40, 44, 54, 60–63, 68, 73, 225–226
private correspondence
63, 180–197, 206 225–228, 230, 239–240, 242–244 ;
see also
correspondence, letter writing
private spelling system
36, 81, 191, 205
pronoun, second-person
60–61, 70, 72, 152–157, 159–160, 166, 168, 173 ;
see also thou
vs.
you
Q
qualitative analysis
15, 34, 44–54, 68–81, 134–135, 137–138, 157, 208
quantitative analysis
34, 41, 54, 66–68, 135, 137–138
quantity
19, 21–22, 27
quh
-
225–244
S
Scots
eighteenth-century
225–244
periodisation of
228–229
spelling
33–54, 134, 161, 175, 208, 210–211, 213–221, 226, 229, 231, 236, 238–240, 243 ;
see also
private spelling system
spelling books
33, 39, 44–53, 57, 190, 205
spelling, epistolary
186, 189–192, 194, 215–218, 221, 223, 226–227
style-shifting
60–61, 76, 228, 230, 234, 244
stylistic change
154, 155, 157–158, 172, 228, 240, 243–244
T
thou
vs.
you
60–61, 72, 74 ;
see also
pronoun, second-person
U
understatement
10–30
V
verbs
lexical
155–156, 161–162, 164–166, 169, 172–174
private
103, 105, 157, 168, 173
semi-modal
156–157
W
Widsith
(OE text)
1