基本説明
Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:2 (2009), this is the first book to map out historical sociopragmatics, a multidisciplinary field located within historical pragmatics, but overlapping with socially-oriented fields, such as sociolinguistics and critical discourse analysis.
Full Description
Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:2 (2009), this is the first book to map out historical sociopragmatics, a multidisciplinary field located within historical pragmatics, but overlapping with socially-oriented fields, such as sociolinguistics and critical discourse analysis. Historical sociopragmatics has a central focus on historical language use in its situational contexts, and how those situational contexts engender norms which speakers engage or exploit for pragmatic purposes. The chapters represent a range of ways in which historical sociopragmatics can be understood and investigated. The reader will find English texts from the 15th century through to the 18th, a variety of genres (including personal correspondence, trial proceedings and plays), and both qualitative and (corpus-based) quantitative analyses. Importantly, attention is given to how contexts can be (re)constructed from written records, a sine qua non of the field. It will appeal to advanced-level students and scholars with interests in pragmatics, especially socially-oriented pragmatics, and/or historical linguistics, especially the history of English.
Contents
1. About the Authors; 2. Historical sociopragmatics: An introduction (by Culpeper, Jonathan); 3. Structures and expectations: A systematic analysis of Margaret Paston's formulaic and expressive language (by Wood, Johanna L.); 4. The sociopragmatics of a lovers' spat: The case of the eighteenth-century courtship letters of Mary Pierrepont and Edward Wortley (by Fitzmaurice, Susan); 5. Altering distance and defining authority: Person reference in Late Modern English (by Nevala, Minna); 6. Variation and change in patterns of self-reference in early English correspondence (by Palander-Collin, Minna); 7. Identifying key sociophilological usage in plays and trial proceedings (1640-1760): An empirical approach via corpus annotation (by Archer, Dawn); 8. Index
