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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... speech acts and speech events in English. Examining spoken utterances in a diachronic perspective elucidates the linguistic processes that effect change as the language develops pragmatically over time. Although each speech act has its ...
... speech acts and speech events in English. Examining spoken utterances in a diachronic perspective elucidates the linguistic processes that effect change as the language develops pragmatically over time. Although each speech act has its ...
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... speech genres by way of the interdisciplinary linguistic methodology of historical pragmatics. Through a set of case studies it explores the evolution of such speech acts as promises, curses, blessings, and greetings and such speech events ...
... speech genres by way of the interdisciplinary linguistic methodology of historical pragmatics. Through a set of case studies it explores the evolution of such speech acts as promises, curses, blessings, and greetings and such speech events ...
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... speech events, like languages, flourish and fade, along with their speakers. When a speech event dies out, we must ask why it ceases to be functional pragmatically for its users. The comparison of English flyting and sounding leaves us ...
... speech events, like languages, flourish and fade, along with their speakers. When a speech event dies out, we must ask why it ceases to be functional pragmatically for its users. The comparison of English flyting and sounding leaves us ...
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... speech event of parting offers territory ripe for historical pragmatic investigation. In chapter six I contend that changes in structures used for the terminal good-bye correlate with changes in its underlying pragmatics, particularly ...
... speech event of parting offers territory ripe for historical pragmatic investigation. In chapter six I contend that changes in structures used for the terminal good-bye correlate with changes in its underlying pragmatics, particularly ...
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... speech acts and speech events treated in this book. Exploring a tentative synthesis of certain historic developments in language and society, I also try to relate some of these linguistic changes to technological and ideological forces ...
... speech acts and speech events treated in this book. Exploring a tentative synthesis of certain historic developments in language and society, I also try to relate some of these linguistic changes to technological and ideological forces ...
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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 |
Diachronic Pragmatics: Seven Case Studies in English Illocutionary Development Leslie K. Arnovick Visualização parcial - 1999 |
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