Historical Pragmatics of Controversies

Case studies from 1600 to 1800

Authors
Gerd Fritz | University of Giessen
Thomas Gloning | University of Giessen
Juliane Glüer | University of Giessen
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ISBN 9789027200983 | EUR 105.00 | USD 158.00
 
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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
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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.”
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Gloning, Thomas
2021. Deutschsprachige Vorlesungen und ihr textuelles Umfeld in historischer Perspektive: Systematisierungsaspekte und Fallbeispiele. Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 49:3  pp. 505 ff. DOI logo
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. DOI logo
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. DOI logo

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Subjects

Philosophy

Philosophy

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics
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U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2018014197 | Marc record