Diachronic Pragmatics: Seven case studies in English illocutionary developmentJohn Benjamins Publishing, 15 de fev. de 2000 - 196 páginas The purpose of Diachronic Pragmatics is to exemplify historical pragmatics in its twofold sense of constituting both a subject matter and a methodology. This book demonstrates how diachronic pragmatics, with its complementary diachronic function-to-form mapping and diachronic form-to-function mapping, can be used to trace pragmatic developments within the English language. Through a set of case studies it explores the evolution of such speech acts as promises, curses, blessings, and greetings and such speech events as flyting and sounding. Collectively these illocutionary biographies manifest the workings of several important pragmatic processes and trends: increased epistemicity, subjectification, and discursization (a special kind of pragmaticalization). It also establishes the centrality of cultural traditions in diachronic reconstruction, examining various de-institutionalizations of extra-linguistic context and their affect on speech act performance. Taken together, the case studies presented in Diachronic Pragmatics highlight the complex interactions of formal, semantic, and pragmatic processes over time. Illustrating the possibilities of historical pragmatic pursuit, this book stands as an invitation to further research in a new and important discipline. |
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... Sienkewicz (1990) apply the insights of Milman Parry (1971) and Albert Lord (1960) to reveal common ground for an ... (Edwards and Sienkewicz 1990). Theoretically, a basis for comparison exists among oral events and FLYTING AND SOUNDING ...
... Sienkewicz (1990) apply the insights of Milman Parry (1971) and Albert Lord (1960) to reveal common ground for an ... (Edwards and Sienkewicz 1990). Theoretically, a basis for comparison exists among oral events and FLYTING AND SOUNDING ...
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... (Edwards and Sienkewicz 1990: 15). Moreover, trapped in a literate world in which even our spoken standard is writing-based, many academics have been desensitized to the oral world they can apprehend. Our literacy has deafened us to many ...
... (Edwards and Sienkewicz 1990: 15). Moreover, trapped in a literate world in which even our spoken standard is writing-based, many academics have been desensitized to the oral world they can apprehend. Our literacy has deafened us to many ...
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... (Edwards and Sienkewicz 1990: 1 13). Another essential difference between ritual insults and personal insults is apparent in the appropriate response to each. Whereas a ritual insult requires a response in kind, a personal insult demands ...
... (Edwards and Sienkewicz 1990: 1 13). Another essential difference between ritual insults and personal insults is apparent in the appropriate response to each. Whereas a ritual insult requires a response in kind, a personal insult demands ...
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... (Edwards and Sienkewicz 1990:115). On these occasions, what is said is less important than how it is said. Eloquence ... (Edwards and Sienkewicz 1990:101). Humorous exaggeration characterizes much of the conventional boasting heard in the ...
... (Edwards and Sienkewicz 1990:115). On these occasions, what is said is less important than how it is said. Eloquence ... (Edwards and Sienkewicz 1990:101). Humorous exaggeration characterizes much of the conventional boasting heard in the ...
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... Edwards and Sienkewicz conclude that stylized insults and boasts provide opportunities in general for any talker to “assert personal identity.” At the same time, a social need is fulfilled: In its fullest contexts, then, verbal abuse ...
... Edwards and Sienkewicz conclude that stylized insults and boasts provide opportunities in general for any talker to “assert personal identity.” At the same time, a social need is fulfilled: In its fullest contexts, then, verbal abuse ...
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Chapter 3 Rationalist Prescriptions for Shall and Will | 41 |
Chapter 4 The Expanding Discourse of the English Promise | 57 |
Chapter 5 Subjectification in the Common Curse | 73 |
The Pragmatic Reanalysis of the Close | 95 |
Discursization in the Polite Bless You | 119 |
Chapter 8 ExtraLinguistic Contexts for Illocutionary Change | 139 |
Notes | 155 |
References | 165 |
Index | 183 |
PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES | 193 |
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Diachronic Pragmatics: Seven Case Studies in English Illocutionary Development Leslie K. Arnovick Visualização parcial - 1999 |
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African-American agonistic insult Amsterdam/Philadelphia analysis argue auxiliaries Battle of Maldon behavior belief Beowulf blessing-greeting boast Breca Cambridge chapter closing common cursing context conversational routine corpus cultural curse locutions Danet and Bogoch de-institutionalization deontic diachronic pragmatics discourse Early Modern English Edwards and Sienkewicz English cursing epistemic example expressive cursing flyting flyting and sounding formal formula function future genre God’s Good-bye Grammar grammaticalization greeting hearer historical linguistics historical pragmatics illocution illocutionary act illocutionary force individual interdisciplinarity interdisciplinary Jacobs and Jucker Judeo-Christian Labov language larger lexical literacy magic meaning medieval Middle English motivation Old English performance perspective politeness practice pragmatic change pragmatic strengthening pragmaticalization prediction Present-Day English promises promissory proposition reflects religion religious represents secularization semantic change Shakespeare’s sneeze blessing social speaker speech act speech events structure subjectification swearing Swift syntactic texts tion tradition Traugott Unferth University Press usage utterance verb verbal duel volition Wallis Rules Westermann wish words