Methods in Historical Pragmatics

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2007

Methods in Historical Pragmatics

Edited by: Susan M. Fitzmaurice and Irma Taavitsainen

Volume 52 in the series Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197822

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About this book

This volume represents a timely collective review and assessment of what it is we do when we do English historical pragmatics or historical discourse analysis. The context for the volume is a critical assessment of the assumptions and practices defining the body of research conducted on the history of the English language from the perspective of historical pragmatics, broadly construed. The aim of the volume is to engage with matters of approach and method from different perspectives; accordingly, the contributions offer insights into earlier communicative practices, registers, and linguistic functions as gleaned from historical discourse.

The essays are grouped according to their orientations within the scope of the study of language and meaning in historical texts, both literary and non-literary. The structure of the volume thus represents a critical convergence of traditions of reading texts and analyzing discourse and this in turn exposes key questions about the methods and the outcomes of such readings or analyses. The volume contributes to the growing maturity of historical pragmatic research approaches as it exemplifies and extends the range of approaches and methods that dominate the research enterprise.

Contributors are prominent international scholars in the fields of linguistics, literature, and philology: Dawn Archer, Birte Bös, Laurel Brinton, Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti, James Fitzmaurice, Susan Fitzmaurice, Monika Fludernik, Andreas Jucker, Thomas Kohnen, Ursula Lenker, Lynne Magnusson, and Irma Taavitsainen.

Author / Editor information

Susan Fitzmaurice, University of Sheffield, UK; Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Reviews

"[...] this volume really brings together alternative, enriching methods to face the functional study of historical discourse."
Federico Navarro in: Linguist List 04/2008

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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Historical pragmatics: What it is and how to do it Irma Taavitsainen and Susan Fitzmaurice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
The development of I mean: Implications for the study of historical pragmatics Laurel J. Brinton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Soþlice, forsoothe, truly – communicative principles and invited inferences in the history of truthintensifying adverbs in English Ursula Lenker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Speech act verbs and speech acts in the history of English Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Text types and the methodology of diachronic speech act analysis Thomas Kohnen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
A pragmatics for interpreting Shakespeare´s Sonnets 1 to 20: Dialogue scripts and Erasmian intertexts Lynne Magnusson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Developing a more detailed picture of the English courtroom (1640–1760): Data and methodological issues facing historical pragmatics Dawn Archer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
What do you lacke? what is it you buy? Early Modern English service encounters Birte Bös Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Letters as narrative: Narrative patterns and episode structure in early letters, 1400 to 1650 Monika Fludernik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Historical linguistics, literary interpretation, and the romances of Margaret Cavendish James Fitzmaurice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Discoursal aspects of the Legends of Holy Women by Osbern Bokenham Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Students and Scholars of English Studies and Pragmatics, Teachers of Historical English, Research Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 313
Keywords: Language change; pragmatics (language); methodology; discourse analysis; corpora

eBook

Published: August 22, 2008
ISBN: 9783110197822

Hardcover

Published: January 17, 2007
ISBN: 9783110190410