Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the PastJanne Skaffari This volume presents a variety of pragmatic and discourse analytical approaches to a wide range of linguistic data and historical texts, including data from English, French, Irish, Latin, and Spanish. This diversity of research questions and methods is a feature of the field of historical pragmatics, which by its very nature has to take into account the multiplicity of historical contexts and the infinite variety of human interaction. This is highlighted in the book s introduction by means of the metaphor of "opening windows." Each chapter is a window affording a different view of the linguistic and textual landscape. Some of these windows were opened by historical linguists who have acquired discourse perspectives, some by pragmaticians with historical interests, and others by literary scholars drawing from linguistic pragmatics. Contributors include L. J. Brinton, A. H. Jucker, F. Salager-Meyer, I. Taavitsainen, B. Wehr, L. Wright, and sixteen others. |
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Contents
An early tobacco controversy | 123 |
A diachronic and crosscultural outlook | 143 |
The underlying pattern of the Renaissance botanical genre pinax | 161 |
Loci communes in English | 179 |
Selfdeprecating discourse | 199 |
Discourse on a par with syntax or the effects of the linguistic organisation | 215 |
The usage of rupture of coherence in Senecas tragedies | 237 |
The case of I say | 279 |
The evolution of the discourse marker voire in French | 301 |
Politeness as a distancing device in the passive and in indefinite pronouns | 319 |
Discourse features of codeswitching in legal reports in late medieval England | 343 |
Focusing strategies in Old French and Old Irish | 353 |
Medieval mixedlanguage business discourse and the rise of Standard English | 381 |
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17th century academic advertisements Amsterdam and Philadelphia anaphoric Anglo-Norman argument Aristolochia audience Bauhin c'est Cambridge University Press Celtic Chaucer clause cleft construction code-switching communication constituents context copula corpus diachronic dialogue discourse analysis discourse markers Early Modern English eModE example exophoric expression focus frequent function genre grammatical grammaticalisation headlines historical House of Fame IModE impersonalisation indefinite pronouns informal fallacies John Benjamins Jucker knowledge language Latin lecture letters lexical lexicalisation linguistic London means medieval Middle English Middle French Modern French narrative narrator newspapers noun occurrences Old French organisation Oxford passive pattern personal pronouns Pinax plant plural politeness pragmatic markers predicate present reference referential rhetorical rupture of coherence scientific semantic sentence sentence-initial speaker speech strategies structure synonymy syntactic Taavitsainen Table text types textual tobacco Traugott utterance verb voire Wilkins words WPNC writing written