Language, Action and Context: The early history of pragmatics in Europe and America 1780–1930
Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 80] 1996. xiv, 497 pp.
David D. Clarke
List of John Benjamins publications for which David D. Clarke plays a role.
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Subjects History of linguistics | Pragmatics
2009 Wilhelm von Humboldt Culture and Language Use, Senft, Gunter, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 173–184 | Article
2008 Timelines, talk and transcription: A chronometric approach to simultaneous speech International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 13:2, pp. 225–250 | Article
Linguists and other social scientists have employed many transcription conventions to exhibit the temporal interleaving of multi-speaker talk. The existence of many different systems, which are mutually incompatible, is evidence that representing spoken discourse remains problematic. This study… read more
2001 Serial metonymy: A study of reference-based polysemisation Journal of Historical Pragmatics 2:2, pp. 245–272 | Article
Metonymy has been studied for at least two thousand years by rhetoricians, for two hundred years by historical semanticists, and for about ten years by cognitive linguists. However, they all have neglected one peculiar aspect of metonymy: its serial nature. Metonymic chains are either synchronic… read more
1999 Wilhelm von Humboldt Handbook of Pragmatics: 1997 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
1997 Polysemy: Patterns of meaning and patterns in history Historiographia Linguistica 24:3, pp. 349–385 | Article
40 years ago Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy was the pivot of semantics. He was referring then to traditional synchronic and diachronic semantics. Nowadays, some 40 years later, polysemy has again become a central topic in cognitive semantics. This article traces the history of this important… read more