Historical Pragmatics

Pragmatic developments in the history of English

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Andreas H. Jucker | Justus-Liebig University, Giessen

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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.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.35

Table of Contents

Preface | p. ix

List of Contributors | p. xiii

Introduction

The historical Perspective in Pragmatics

Andreas Jacobs and Andreas H. Jucker | p. 3

Pragmaphilology

The Openness of Medieval Texts

Heinz Bergner | p. 37

They Had Thier Points: Punctaution and Interpretation in English Renaissance Literature

Gert Ronberg | p. 55

Punctuation: And- ‘Pragmatics’

John Lennard | p. 65

A Close Reading of William Caxton’s Dialogues: “… to lerne Shortly frenssh and englyssh”

Werner Hüllen | p. 99

Wills and Will-Making in 16th and 17th Century England: Some Pragmatic Aspects

Ulrich Bach | p. 125

Justifying Grammars: A Socio-Pragmatic Foray into the Discourse Community of Early English Grammatians

Richard J. Watts | p. 145

Communicative Clues in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

M. Pilar Navarro-Errasti | p. 187

Diachronic form-to-function mapping

Pragmatic Maxims in Explanations of Language Change?

José Pinto De Lima | p. 197

Pragmatic Constraints to Word Order, and Word-Order Change in English

Enrique Bernárdez and Paloma Tejada | p. 217

The Semantic and Pragmatic Development of Substitutive Complex Prepositions in English

Scott A. Schwenter and Elizabeth Closs Traugott | p. 243

On Doing as You Please

Cynthia L. Allen | p. 275

Your Average Generalisations: A Case-Study in Historical Pragmatics

Katie Wales | p. 309

Demonstratives in Early Modern English Letters

Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky | p. 329

The Ambiguous Adverbial/Conjunctions pa and ponne in Middle English: A Discourse-Pragmatic Study of then and when in Early English Saints’ Lives

Brita Wårvik | p. 345

Middle English po and other Narrative Discourse Markers

Monika Fludernik | p. 359

Diachronic Analysis of Japanese Discourse Markers

Noriko O. Onodera | p. 393

Interjections in Early Modern English: From Imitation of Spoken to Conventions of Written Language

Irma Taavitsainen | p. 439

Diachronic function-to-form mapping

Topics in the History of Dialogue forms

Gerd Fritz | p. 469

“Then I saw to antique heddes”: Discourse Strategies in Early Modern English Travelogues

Tuija Virtanen | p. 499

Linguistic Politeness Strategies in Shakespeare’s Plays

Roman Kopytko | p. 515

Constraints on Politeness: The Pragmatics of Address Formulae in Early English Correspondance

Terttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg | p. 541

Index of Names and Sources | p. 603

Index of Subjects | p. 617

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