In this paper, we argue that there is another approach to the study of historical pragmatics beyond those explicitly mentioned in Jacobs and Jucker (1995). We label this approach “sociophilology”. Moreover, we demonstrate how this approach can be effectively pursued by combining two corpus linguistics techniques: corpus annotation and “keyness” analysis. Specifically, we draw from the Sociopragmatic Corpus (1640–1760), an annotated subsection of comedy plays and drama proceedings taken from the Corpus of Dialogues 1560–1760, as a means of identifying the statistically-based style markers, or key items, associated with a number of social role dyads (including examiner to examinee and master/mistress to servant). We will show how such an approach might be used to uncover differential distributions of personal pronouns, interjections, imperative verbs, politeness formulae, etc., and how, by combining qualitative analysis with quantitative analysis, one can scrutinise such material for pragmatic import.
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Bustos-Gisbert, Eugenio
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Felder, Ekkehard, Marcus Müller & Friedemann Vogel
2011. Korpuspragmatik. Paradigma zwischen Handlung, Gesellschaft und Kognition. In Korpuspragmatik, ► pp. 3 ff.
Hendrickx, Iris, Michel Généreux & Rita Marquilhas
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HICKEY, RAYMOND & ELAINE VAUGHAN
2017. Introduction. World Englishes 36:2 ► pp. 154 ff.
2023. Sociopragmatics and Context. In The Cambridge Handbook of Language in Context, ► pp. 205 ff.
Romaine, Suzanne
2010. 19th Century Key Words, Key Semantic Domains and Affect: “In the Rich Vocabulary of Love ‘Most Dearest’ be a True Superlative”. Studia Neophilologica 82:1 ► pp. 12 ff.
Vaughan, Elaine & Brian Clancy
2016. Sociolinguistic Information and Irish English Corpora. In Sociolinguistics in Ireland, ► pp. 365 ff.
Włodarczyk, Matylda & Irma Taavitsainen
2017. Introduction. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 18:2 ► pp. 159 ff.
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2021. Fundamentals of Sociopragmatics. In The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics, ► pp. 13 ff.
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