Historical Pragmatics of Controversies
Case studies from 1600 to 1800
| University of Giessen
| University of Giessen
| University of Giessen
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
1–36
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38–93
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96–130
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132–170
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172–207
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210–251
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254–295
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298–337
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Index
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338–352
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“[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
Subjects
Philosophy
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009030 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics