Historical Sociopragmatics

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-0250-5
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 135 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

Reihe: Benjamins Current Topics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Culpeper, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Authors

vii–viii
Historical sociopragmatics: An introduction
Jonathan Culpeper

1–8
Structures and expectations: A systematic analysis of Margaret Paston's formulaic and expressive language
Johanna L. Wood

9–36
The sociopragmatics of a lovers' spat: The case of the eighteenth-century courtship letters of Mary Pierrepont and Edward Wortley
Susan M. Fitzmaurice

37–59
Altering distance and defining authority: Person reference in Late Modern English
Minna Nevala

61–82
Variation and change in patterns of self-reference in early English correspondence
Minna Palander-Collin

83–108
Identifying key sociophilological usage in plays and trial proceedings (1640-1760): An empirical approach via corpus annotation
Dawn Archer and Jonathan Culpeper

109–132
Index

133–135