Historical Pragmatics
Pragmatic developments in the history of English
Editor
Until very recently, pragmatics has been restricted to the analysis of contemporary spoken language while historical linguistics has studied historical texts and language change in a decontextualized way. This has now radically changed and scholars from around the world are trying to build a new theoretical framework that integrates recent advances both in pragmatics and in historical linguistics.
The volume, which contains 22 original articles, starts with an introduction that is both a state-of-the-art account of historical pragmatics and a programmatic statement of its future potential and its different subfields.
Part I contains seven pragmaphilological papers that deal with historical texts and their interpretations by paying close attention to the communicative context of these texts.
The second and third parts comprise papers in diachronic pragmatics. The ten papers of part II take a linguistic form as their starting point, e.g. particular lexical items or syntactic constructions, and study their pragmatic functions at different times (diachronic form-to-function mappings), while the four papers of part III take a particular pragmatic function as their starting point, e.g. discourse strategies or politeness, and study their linguistic realisation at different times (diachronic function-to-form mappings).
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 35] 1995. xvi, 623 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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Table of Contents
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Preface | p. ix
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List of Contributors | p. xiii
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Introduction
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The historical Perspective in PragmaticsAndreas Jacobs and Andreas H. Jucker | p. 3
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Pragmaphilology
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The Openness of Medieval TextsHeinz Bergner | p. 37
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They Had Thier Points: Punctaution and Interpretation in English Renaissance LiteratureGert Ronberg | p. 55
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Punctuation: And- ‘Pragmatics’John Lennard | p. 65
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A Close Reading of William Caxton’s Dialogues: “… to lerne Shortly frenssh and englyssh”Werner Hüllen | p. 99
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Wills and Will-Making in 16th and 17th Century England: Some Pragmatic AspectsUlrich Bach | p. 125
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Justifying Grammars: A Socio-Pragmatic Foray into the Discourse Community of Early English GrammatiansRichard J. Watts | p. 145
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Communicative Clues in Sir Gawain and the Green KnightM. Pilar Navarro-Errasti | p. 187
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Diachronic form-to-function mapping
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Pragmatic Maxims in Explanations of Language Change?José Pinto De Lima | p. 197
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Pragmatic Constraints to Word Order, and Word-Order Change in EnglishEnrique Bernárdez and Paloma Tejada | p. 217
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The Semantic and Pragmatic Development of Substitutive Complex Prepositions in EnglishScott A. Schwenter and Elizabeth Closs Traugott | p. 243
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On Doing as You PleaseCynthia L. Allen | p. 275
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Your Average Generalisations: A Case-Study in Historical PragmaticsKatie Wales | p. 309
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Demonstratives in Early Modern English LettersBarbara Kryk-Kastovsky | p. 329
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The Ambiguous Adverbial/Conjunctions pa and ponne in Middle English: A Discourse-Pragmatic Study of then and when in Early English Saints’ LivesBrita Wårvik | p. 345
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Middle English po and other Narrative Discourse MarkersMonika Fludernik | p. 359
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Diachronic Analysis of Japanese Discourse MarkersNoriko O. Onodera | p. 393
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Interjections in Early Modern English: From Imitation of Spoken to Conventions of Written LanguageIrma Taavitsainen | p. 439
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Diachronic function-to-form mapping
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Topics in the History of Dialogue formsGerd Fritz | p. 469
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“Then I saw to antique heddes”: Discourse Strategies in Early Modern English TraveloguesTuija Virtanen | p. 499
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Linguistic Politeness Strategies in Shakespeare’s PlaysRoman Kopytko | p. 515
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Constraints on Politeness: The Pragmatics of Address Formulae in Early English CorrespondanceTerttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg | p. 541
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Index of Names and Sources | p. 603
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Index of Subjects | p. 617
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General