Reanimated Voices
Speech reporting in a historical-pragmatic perspective
Reanimated Voices addresses three activities: reporters evoking speech events; interpreters (re)constituting those speech events; and historical pragmaticians eavesdropping in time on the reporters and interpreters. Can one reconstruct aspects of pragmatic competence on the basis of written texts only? Reanimated Voices answers this in the affirmative. It offers a methodology for historical-pragmatic reconstruction to explain the synchronic patterns of variation in premodern writings.
Reanimated Voices examines the distribution of reporting strategies in a corpus of medieval Russian texts. Forms preferred in specific recurring contexts are matched with the need(s) served by those contexts — a fit reflecting collective intentionality. Occasional “residual forms” -strategies that appear in contexts where others predominate- also reflect cooperative behavior; they index utterances departing from the prototype or unusual configurations of participants. Thus Reanimated Voices explores reporting as an activity of rational agents coordinating interpretation in accordance with cultural and institutional notions of relevance.
This book has won the annual book prize in the category Slavic Linguistics awarded by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.
Reanimated Voices examines the distribution of reporting strategies in a corpus of medieval Russian texts. Forms preferred in specific recurring contexts are matched with the need(s) served by those contexts — a fit reflecting collective intentionality. Occasional “residual forms” -strategies that appear in contexts where others predominate- also reflect cooperative behavior; they index utterances departing from the prototype or unusual configurations of participants. Thus Reanimated Voices explores reporting as an activity of rational agents coordinating interpretation in accordance with cultural and institutional notions of relevance.
This book has won the annual book prize in the category Slavic Linguistics awarded by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 85] 2001. xx, 384 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
-
Acknowledgments | p. xi
-
Preface | p. xiii
-
Conventions for citing Cyrillic sources | p. xix
-
Abbreviations | p. xxi
-
1. The pragmatics of reported speech | p. 1
-
2. The text-kind: A pragmaphilological overview | p. 27
-
3. Testimony | p. 35
-
4. Residual forms in testimony | p. 75
-
5. The question framework | p. 151
-
6. Reporting from judicial-referral hearings | p. 177
-
7. Layered reports | p. 203
-
8. Reporting the verdict | p. 245
-
9. Conclusions | p. 285
-
Notes | p. 303
-
-
Appendix: Text-kind and date of the investigated trial transcripts | p. 343
-
Name index | p. 349
-
Subject index | p. 355
“Daniel E. Collins's Reanimated Voices is a valuable contribution to the study of the burgeoning field of historical pragmatics. [...] Students of historical pragmatics in general, and of reported speech in particular, will find this is an important monograph that provides a theoretically sound and methodologically valid, if not well-balanced [...] account of 'reporting in medieval Russian trial transcripts' [...]. Through a successful genre-based approach to patterns of lexical and syntactic usage, this volume certainly sheds some new light on further functionalist research on language in use.”
Chaoqun Xie, Fujian Teachers University, in Language Vol. 79, Number 1 (2003)
“A first-class piece of scholarship revealing a great deal of erudition. It is simply indispensable to any academic programme teaching literary pragmatics.”
Mounir Triki, Sfax, Tunisia
“
Reanimated Voices is a detailed and highly nuanced pragmatic analysis of a series of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Northeast Russian trial records. [...] This study should have broad appeal: the questions underlying the study are of general interest to the fields of historical and pragmatic linguistics, but his results are also important contributions to the study of early Russian texts.”
Ariann Stern, University of California, in Slavic and East European Journal (2003)
Cited by (32)
Cited by 32 other publications
GRUND, PETER J.
Havasi, Zsuzsanna
Thomas, Jenelle
Maslov, Boris & Tatiana Nikitina
Dekker, Simeon
Salaberri, Iker
Watson, Christine
Constantinescu, Mihaela-Viorica
2018. A perspective on “impoliteness” in early modern Romanian court and diplomatic interactions. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 19:1 ► pp. 92 ff.
Kurzon, Dennis & Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
Brownlees, Nicholas
Simon Franklin & Katherine Bowers
García Castillero, Carlos
2017. Descriptive and diachronic aspects of the Old Irish quotative marker ol
. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 18:1 ► pp. 58 ff.
Walker, Terry & Peter J. Grund
Caballero, Rosario
Kwon, K.
D’Arcy, Alexandra
Bryan, Eric Shane
Marnette, Sophie
Culpeper, Jonathan & Minna Nevala
Kahlas-Tarkka, Leena
Collins, Daniel E.
Gippius, Alexey A. & Jos Schaeken
Jucker, Andreas H.
Jucker, Andreas H.
Kryk-Kastovsky, Barbara
2005. Review of Hiltunen & Watanabe (2004): Approaches to Style and Discourse in English. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:2 ► pp. 336 ff.
Short, Mick, Elena Semino & Martin Wynne
[no author supplied]
[no author supplied]
[no author supplied]
[no author supplied]
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 27 october 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General