Historical Pragmatics of Controversies
Case studies from 1600 to 1800
Authors
The book gives an introduction to the new research field of Historical Pragmatics of Controversies and provides seven case studies (from 1609 to 1796) on controversies in the fields of astronomy/astrology, medicine, chemistry, philosophy, and theology. The protagonists of these controversies include both famous authors like Kepler, Hobbes and Leibniz and internationally less known authors like the German theologian A.H. Francke and the chemist F.A.C. Gren. The case studies examine the organizing principles of historical controversies, language use, moves and strategies, topic management and text organisation, and the adherence to communication principles in these controversies. At the same time they analyse the use of different text types and media in the course of controversies, including pamphlets, journal articles, reviews, scientific handbooks and letters. In addition, the case studies demonstrate early modern writers’ resources from disputation practice, dialectic, and rhetoric and show developments of the practice of polemical writing during this period.
[Controversies, 14] 2018. vii, 346 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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About the authors
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Chapter 1. The pragmatic organization of controversies: A historical perspectiveGerd Fritz | pp. 1–36
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Chapter 2. The pragmatic organization of the Kepler/Röslin/Feselius controversy on the scientific status of astrology (1609/1611)Thomas Gloning | pp. 38–94
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Chapter 3. The pragmatic organization of the Hobbes vs. Bramhall controversy (1645–1658)Gerd Fritz | pp. 95–130
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Chapter 4. Old and new medicine: The Gehema/Geuder controversy over medical practices (1688/89)Gerd Fritz and Thomas Gloning | pp. 131–170
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Chapter 5. The pamphlet and its alternatives around 1700: A thread of the Pietist controversy (Johann Friedrich Mayer vs. August Hermann Francke)Gerd Fritz and Juliane Glüer | pp. 171–208
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Chapter 6. Leibniz vs. Locke: A virtual controversyGerd Fritz | pp. 209–252
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Chapter 7. Reviews and responses: A controversy about the biblical canon (1771–1775)Gerd Fritz and Juliane Glüer | pp. 253–296
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Chapter 8. Controversy and conversion: Friedrich Albert Carl Gren and the phlogiston controversy (1790–96)Gerd Fritz | pp. 297–337
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Index | pp. 338–352
“[T]he book makes a theoretically and methodologically uniform contribution to the history of controversy as a communication form, and in this way remains relevant to the field of historical pragmatics.”
Matylda Włodarczyk, University in Poznan, in Journal of Pragmatics 151 (2019) 70 – 73
Cited by
Cited by 3 other publications
Gloning, Thomas
van de Poppe, Cora & Joanna Wall
2023. The pragmatic and rhetorical function of perfect doubling in the work of D. V. Coornhert. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:2 ► pp. 245 ff.
Whitt, Richard J.
2022. Chapter 8. Language, labour and ideology. In Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330], ► pp. 179 ff.
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Subjects
Philosophy
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics