Women's Epistolary Utterance: A study of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611
Graham T. Williams
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 233] 2013. ix, 266 pp.
Graham T. Williams
List of John Benjamins publications for which Graham T. Williams plays a role.
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Subjects English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Articles
2017 wine min Unferð : Courtly speech and a reconsideration of (supposed) sarcasm in Beowulf Historical (socio)pragmatics at present, Włodarczyk, Matylda and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 175–194 | Article
This paper argues for a reconsideration of the pragmatics of Beowulf, specifically in relation to speech in what is known as the “Unferð Episode”, and more generally in terms of the poem’s placement in the ethnopragmatic history of English. Previous critics have almost unanimously read sarcasm… read more
2010 “trobled wth a tedious discours”: Sincerity, sarcasm and seriousness in the letters of Maria Thynne, c. 1601–1610 Journal of Historical Pragmatics 11:2, pp. 169–193 | Article
This study provides close, pragmatically-orientated readings of epistolary manifestations of sincerity, sarcasm and seriousness as expressed in the letters of Maria Thynne to her mother-in-law and to her husband, at the beginning of the seventeenth century. By examining how each mode of expression… read more