Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the PastJanne Skaffari, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen, Brita Wårvik 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. |
Contents
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Presidential inaugural addresses | 39 |
Freedom of speech at stake | 53 |
Textinitiating strategies in eighteenthcentury newspaper headlines | 65 |
II Science and academia | 81 |
Chaucers narrators and audiences | 199 |
Discourse on a par with syntax or the effects of the linguistic organisation of letters on the diachronic characterisation of the text type | 215 |
Verba sic spernit mea | 237 |
IV Discourse and pragmatics | 257 |
Ther been thinges thre the whiche thynges troublen al this erthe | 259 |
Processes underlying the development of pragmatic markers | 279 |
From certainty to doubt | 301 |
Politeness as a distancing device in the passive and in indefinite pronouns | 319 |
Patterns of agentivity and narrativity in early science discourse | 83 |
The economics academic lecture in the nineteenth century | 95 |
Contesting authorities | 109 |
Personal pronouns in argumentation | 123 |
Criticism under scrutiny | 143 |
The underlying pattern of the Renaissance botanical genre pinax | 161 |
Genres and the appropriation of science | 179 |
III Letters and literature | 197 |
V Language contact and discourse | 341 |
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 |
Author index | 401 |
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The Pragmatics Beyond New Series | 417 |
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17th century academic advertisements Amsterdam and Philadelphia analysis anaphoric Anglo-Norman argument Aristolochia Aristotle audience Bauhin c’est Cambridge University Press Chaucer clause cleft construction code-switching communication confirmative constituents context copula corpus defined definition diachronic dialogue discourse analysis discourse markers Early Modern English eModE example exophoric expression field figure find first first person focus frequent function genre grammaticalisation headlines historical impersonalisation indefinite pronouns influence informal fallacies Iohn Iucker knowledge language Latin lecture letters lexicalisation linguistic lModE London means medieval Middle English Middle French Modern French narrative narrator newspapers noun occurrences ofthe Old French organisation passive personal pronouns Pinax plant plural politeness pragmatic markers predicate reference referential reflected relative clause rhetorical scientific semantic Seneca sentence significant speaker specific speech strategies structure synonymy syntactic Taavitsainen Table text types textual tobacco utterance verb voire Wilkins words WPNC written