Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past
Editors
| University of Turku
| University of Turku
| University of Turku
| University of Turku
| Åbo Akademi University
This volume presents a variety of pragmatic and discourse analytical approaches to a wide range of linguistic data and historical texts, including data from English, French, Irish, Latin, and Spanish. This diversity of research questions and methods is a feature of the field of historical pragmatics, which by its very nature has to take into account the multiplicity of historical contexts and the infinite variety of human interaction. This is highlighted in the book’s introduction by means of the metaphor of "opening windows". Each chapter is a window affording a different view of the linguistic and textual landscape. Some of these windows were opened by historical linguists who have acquired discourse perspectives, some by pragmaticians with historical interests, and others by literary scholars drawing from linguistic pragmatics. Contributors include L. J. Brinton, A. H. Jucker, F. Salager-Meyer, I. Taavitsainen, B. Wehr, L. Wright, and sixteen others.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 134] 2005. x, 418 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
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ix
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1–4
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Discourse in the public sphere
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5
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7–21
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23–38
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39–52
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53–63
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65–79
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Science and academia
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81
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83–94
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95–107
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109–122
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123–141
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143–160
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161–178
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179–196
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Letters and litterature
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197
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199–213
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215–235
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237–256
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Discourse and pragmatics
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257
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259–277
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279–299
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301–317
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319–339
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Language contact and discourse
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341
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343–351
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353–379
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381–399
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Author Index
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401–407
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Subject Index
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409–416
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“This collection simultaneously covers a diverse range of topics and issues related to contemporary discourse studies, including media, political rhetoric, argumentative, and expository literary discourse, pragmatics, language switching, business writing, etc. The volume, as such, provides a valuable groundwork for scholars with interests not only in diachronic perspectives on discourse, but for those who are interested in the social changes from a multidisciplinary point of view, genre theory, social sciences, etc. This volume provides subtle and revealing explorations of various issues related to historical discourses and at the same time it poses questions and provides answers that will impact on future thinking about pragmatics, and discourse and society in general and about historical discourse linguistics.”
Aleksandar Carapic, in Discourse Studies 8 (4)
“[...] the extension and consistency of the articles in this volume is rich and presents a variety of papers on very different issues, at the same time autonomous and worth a further insight on the one side, interdependent and contributing to reinforce the dynamic framework of historical pragmatics on the other.”
Giampaolo Poletto, University of Pécs, Hungary, on Linguist List 16.1167 (2006)
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Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General