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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... structural form, changes over time. The history of the agonistic insult is finally the history of the people who use ... structures in order the explain the appearance of pragmatically-“expanded” promises. My decision to separate this ...
... structural form, changes over time. The history of the agonistic insult is finally the history of the people who use ... structures in order the explain the appearance of pragmatically-“expanded” promises. My decision to separate this ...
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... structures used for the terminal good-bye correlate with changes in its underlying pragmatics, particularly its ... structure the conversation through a courteous closing recognition of the hearer. Henceforth isolated from the ...
... structures used for the terminal good-bye correlate with changes in its underlying pragmatics, particularly its ... structure the conversation through a courteous closing recognition of the hearer. Henceforth isolated from the ...
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... Structures and their functions (see Leech 1983:x). Because its purview is nothing less than the way in which language fulfills its communicative and social-interactive functions, pragmatics may be defined most broadly as “the linguistic ...
... Structures and their functions (see Leech 1983:x). Because its purview is nothing less than the way in which language fulfills its communicative and social-interactive functions, pragmatics may be defined most broadly as “the linguistic ...
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... structure, its illocutionary force, and its perlocutionary effect. The term speech act, as I use it, refers to both the synchronic act performed at moment x and the generic compilation of individual acts that emerge under diachronic ...
... structure, its illocutionary force, and its perlocutionary effect. The term speech act, as I use it, refers to both the synchronic act performed at moment x and the generic compilation of individual acts that emerge under diachronic ...
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... structure resulting from altered communicative needs which are due to changes in the social structure ..., [i.e.] with changes in traditions of language use resulting from changes in this situational context” (Jacobs and Jucker 199526) ...
... structure resulting from altered communicative needs which are due to changes in the social structure ..., [i.e.] with changes in traditions of language use resulting from changes in this situational context” (Jacobs and Jucker 199526) ...
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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 |
Termos e frases comuns
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