Historical Pragmatics
Pragmatic developments in the history of English
Editor
Until very recently, pragmatics has been restricted to the analysis of contemporary spoken language while historical linguistics has studied historical texts and language change in a decontextualized way. This has now radically changed and scholars from around the world are trying to build a new theoretical framework that integrates recent advances both in pragmatics and in historical linguistics.
The volume, which contains 22 original articles, starts with an introduction that is both a state-of-the-art account of historical pragmatics and a programmatic statement of its future potential and its different subfields.
Part I contains seven pragmaphilological papers that deal with historical texts and their interpretations by paying close attention to the communicative context of these texts.
The second and third parts comprise papers in diachronic pragmatics. The ten papers of part II take a linguistic form as their starting point, e.g. particular lexical items or syntactic constructions, and study their pragmatic functions at different times (diachronic form-to-function mappings), while the four papers of part III take a particular pragmatic function as their starting point, e.g. discourse strategies or politeness, and study their linguistic realisation at different times (diachronic function-to-form mappings).
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 35] 1995. xvi, 623 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 8 April 2011
Published online on 8 April 2011
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Table of Contents
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Preface | p. ix
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List of Contributors | p. xiii
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Introduction
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The historical Perspective in PragmaticsAndreas Jacobs and Andreas H. Jucker | p. 3
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Pragmaphilology
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The Openness of Medieval TextsHeinz Bergner | p. 37
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They Had Thier Points: Punctaution and Interpretation in English Renaissance LiteratureGert Ronberg | p. 55
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Punctuation: And- ‘Pragmatics’John Lennard | p. 65
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A Close Reading of William Caxton’s Dialogues: “… to lerne Shortly frenssh and englyssh”Werner Hüllen | p. 99
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Wills and Will-Making in 16th and 17th Century England: Some Pragmatic AspectsUlrich Bach | p. 125
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Justifying Grammars: A Socio-Pragmatic Foray into the Discourse Community of Early English GrammatiansRichard J. Watts | p. 145
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Communicative Clues in Sir Gawain and the Green KnightM. Pilar Navarro-Errasti | p. 187
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Diachronic form-to-function mapping
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Pragmatic Maxims in Explanations of Language Change?José Pinto De Lima | p. 197
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Pragmatic Constraints to Word Order, and Word-Order Change in EnglishEnrique Bernárdez and Paloma Tejada | p. 217
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The Semantic and Pragmatic Development of Substitutive Complex Prepositions in EnglishScott A. Schwenter and Elizabeth Closs Traugott | p. 243
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On Doing as You PleaseCynthia L. Allen | p. 275
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Your Average Generalisations: A Case-Study in Historical PragmaticsKatie Wales | p. 309
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Demonstratives in Early Modern English LettersBarbara Kryk-Kastovsky | p. 329
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The Ambiguous Adverbial/Conjunctions pa and ponne in Middle English: A Discourse-Pragmatic Study of then and when in Early English Saints’ LivesBrita Wårvik | p. 345
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Middle English po and other Narrative Discourse MarkersMonika Fludernik | p. 359
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Diachronic Analysis of Japanese Discourse MarkersNoriko O. Onodera | p. 393
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Interjections in Early Modern English: From Imitation of Spoken to Conventions of Written LanguageIrma Taavitsainen | p. 439
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Diachronic function-to-form mapping
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Topics in the History of Dialogue formsGerd Fritz | p. 469
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“Then I saw to antique heddes”: Discourse Strategies in Early Modern English TraveloguesTuija Virtanen | p. 499
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Linguistic Politeness Strategies in Shakespeare’s PlaysRoman Kopytko | p. 515
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Constraints on Politeness: The Pragmatics of Address Formulae in Early English CorrespondanceTerttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg | p. 541
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Index of Names and Sources | p. 603
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Index of Subjects | p. 617
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2022. Chapter 11. Communicating authority. In Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330], ► pp. 251 ff.
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2022. A constructional account of the development of the Chinese stance discourse markerběnlái. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 23:2 ► pp. 245 ff.
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2021. Politeness reciprocity in Shakespeare’s dialogue. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 22:2 ► pp. 202 ff.
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2021. Review of Nevalainen & Tanskanen (): Letter Writing. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics ► pp. 339 ff.
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2021. Review of Paternoster & Fitzmaurice (2019): Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Pragmatics and Society 12:2 ► pp. 334 ff.
Leitner, Magdalena & Andreas H. Jucker
Sorjonen, Marja-Leena, Anssi Peräkylä, Ritva Laury & Jan Lindström
2021. Intersubjectivity in action. In Intersubjectivity in Action [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 326], ► pp. 1 ff.
Kortmann, Bernd
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Parussa, Gabriella
Stratton, James M.
Fanego, Teresa & Paula Rodríguez-Puente
2019. Chapter 1. “Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?” English legal discourse past and present. In Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 91], ► pp. 1 ff.
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Constantinescu, Mihaela-Viorica
2018. A perspective on “impoliteness” in early modern Romanian court and diplomatic interactions. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 19:1 ► pp. 92 ff.
Kurzon, Dennis & Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
Peng, Xinjia
2018. The emergence of a discourse construction in the internet. Chinese Language and Discourse. An International and Interdisciplinary Journal 9:2 ► pp. 209 ff.
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Traugott, Elizabeth Closs
2016. On the rise of types of clause-final pragmatic markers in English. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 17:1 ► pp. 26 ff.
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs
2021. The rise of a concessive “category reassessment” construction. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 22:2 ► pp. 164 ff.
Verschueren, Jef
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Suhr, Carla
2015. Review of Moore (2011): Quoting Speech in Early English. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 16:1 ► pp. 154 ff.
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Archer, Dawn
Archer, Dawn
2017. Context and historical (socio-)pragmatics twenty years on. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 18:2 ► pp. 315 ff.
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Jucker, Andreas H. & Irma Taavitsainen
2014. Diachronic corpus pragmatics: Intersections and interactions. In Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 243], ► pp. 3 ff.
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Diller, Hans-Jürgen
2011. Review of Mazzon (2009): Interactive Dialogue Sequences in Middle English Drama. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 12:1-2 ► pp. 294 ff.
Mandala, Susan
2011. Book Review: The Construction of a Period Dialect: The Language of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and its Sources by Adrian Pablé, 2007. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (Fokus, Linguistisch-Philologische Studien, Band 32), pp. xvi + 177. ISBN 9783884769430 (pbk). Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 20:1 ► pp. 73 ff.
Reisner, Noam
2011. Review of Mazzon (2009): Interactive Dialogue Sequences in Middle English Drama. Pragmatics & Cognition 19:1 ► pp. 181 ff.
Fludernik, Monika
Schneider, Klaus P.
Schneider, Klaus P.
Kilian, Jörg
Čarapić, Aleksandar
Brinton, Laurel J.
Brinton, Laurel J.
Hope, Jonathan
Arnovick, Leslie K.
2003. Review of Jucker, Fritz & Lebsanft (1999): Historical Dialogue Analysis. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4:2 ► pp. 327 ff.
Feulner, A.H.
Hickey, Raymond
Hickey, Raymond
Jucker, Andreas H
Alonso-Almeida, Francisco
Kohnen, Thomas
2001. Review of Arnovick (1999): Diachronic Pragmatics:Se ven Case Studies in English Illocutionary Development. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 2:2 ► pp. 321 ff.
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Subjects
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LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General