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The Handbook of Historical Pragmatics provides an authoritative and
accessible overview of this versatile new field in pragmatics
devoted to a diachronic study of language use and human interaction
in context. It covers all areas of historical pragmatics from
grammaticalization theory to pragmatic entities, such as discourse
markers, speech acts and politeness to individual discourse domains
from scientific writing to literary discourse. Each contribution,
written by a leading specialist, gives a succinct, representative
and up-to-date overview of research questions, theories, methods
and recent developments in the field.
This volume represents a timely collective review and assessment of
what it is we do when we do English historical pragmatics or
historical discourse analysis. The context for the volume is a
critical assessment of the assumptions and practices defining the
body of research conducted on the history of the English language
from the perspective of historical pragmatics, broadly construed.
The aim of the volume is to engage with matters of approach and
method from different perspectives; accordingly, the contributions
offer insights into earlier communicative practices, registers, and
linguistic functions as gleaned from historical discourse. The
essays are grouped according to their orientations within the scope
of the study of language and meaning in historical texts, both
literary and non-literary. The structure of the volume thus
represents a critical convergence of traditions of reading texts
and analyzing discourse and this in turn exposes key questions
about the methods and the outcomes of such readings or analyses.
The volume contributes to the growing maturity of historical
pragmatic research approaches as it exemplifies and extends the
range of approaches and methods that dominate the research
enterprise. Contributors are prominent international scholars in
the fields of linguistics, literature, and philology: Dawn Archer,
Birte Boes, Laurel Brinton, Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti, James
Fitzmaurice, Susan Fitzmaurice, Monika Fludernik, Andreas Jucker,
Thomas Kohnen, Ursula Lenker, Lynne Magnusson, and Irma
Taavitsainen.
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of
Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which
integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical
linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the
other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting
new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that
contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further
outstanding research in English linguistics.
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of
Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which
integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical
linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the
other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting
new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that
contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further
outstanding research in English linguistics.
This is your guide to historical pragmatics in English studies.
Providing an ideal introduction to historical pragmatics, this
guide gives students a solid grounding in historical pragmatics and
teaches the methodology needed to analyse language in social,
cultural and historical contexts. Using a number of case studies
including politeness, news discourse, and scientific discourse,
this book provides new insights into the analysis of discourse
markers, interjections, terms of address and speech acts. Through
focusing on the methodological problems in using historical data,
students learn the key concepts in historical pragmatics, as well
as covering recent work at the interface of between language and
literature.
The history of the English language is a vast and diverse area of
research. In this volume, a team of leading historians of English
come together to analyse 'real' language, drawing on corpus data to
shed new light on long-established issues and debates in the field.
Combining synchronic and diachronic analysis, the chapters address
the major issues in corpus linguistics - methodological,
theoretical and applied - and place special focus on the use of
electronic resources in the research of English and the wider field
of digital humanities. Topics covered include polemical articles on
the optimal use of corpus linguistic methods, macro-level patterns
of text and discourse organisation, and micro-features such as
interjections and hesitators. Covering Englishes from the past and
present, this book is designed specifically for graduate students
and researchers working in fields of corpus linguistics, the
history of the English language, and historical linguistics.
Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book offers
novel perspectives on the history of medical writing and scientific
thought-styles by examining patterns of change and reception in
genres, discourse, and lexis in the period 1500-1820. Each chapter
demonstrates in detail how changing textual forms were closely tied
to major multi-faceted social developments: industrialisation,
urbanisation, expanding trade, colonialization, and changes in
communication, all of which posed new demands on medical care. It
then shows how these developments were reflected in a range of
medical discourses, such as bills of mortality, medical
advertisements, medical recipes, and medical rhetoric, and provides
an extensive body of case studies to highlight how varieties of
medical discourse have been targeted at different audiences over
time. It draws on a wide range of methodological frameworks and is
accompanied by numerous relevant illustrations, making it essential
reading for academic researchers and students across the human
sciences.
The history of the English language is a vast and diverse area of
research. In this volume, a team of leading historians of English
come together to analyse 'real' language, drawing on corpus data to
shed new light on long-established issues and debates in the field.
Combining synchronic and diachronic analysis, the chapters address
the major issues in corpus linguistics - methodological,
theoretical and applied - and place special focus on the use of
electronic resources in the research of English and the wider field
of digital humanities. Topics covered include polemical articles on
the optimal use of corpus linguistic methods, macro-level patterns
of text and discourse organisation, and micro-features such as
interjections and hesitators. Covering Englishes from the past and
present, this book is designed specifically for graduate students
and researchers working in fields of corpus linguistics, the
history of the English language, and historical linguistics.
Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of
science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge
in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution
of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus
of Early Modern English Medical Texts, containing over two million
words of medical writing from 1500 to 1700. The book presents
results from large-scale empirical research on the new materials
and provides a more detailed and diversified picture of
domain-specific developments than any previous book. Three
introductory chapters provide the sociohistorical, disciplinary and
textual frame for nine empirical studies, which address a range of
key issues in a wide variety of medical genres from fresh angles.
The book is useful for researchers and students within several
fields, including the development of special languages, genre and
register analysis, (historical) corpus linguistics, historical
pragmatics, and medical and cultural history.
Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of
science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge
in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution
of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus
of Early Modern English Medical Texts, containing over two million
words of medical writing from 1500 to 1700. The book presents
results from large-scale empirical research on the new materials
and provides a more detailed and diversified picture of
domain-specific developments than any previous book. Three
introductory chapters provide the sociohistorical, disciplinary and
textual frame for nine empirical studies, which address a range of
key issues in a wide variety of medical genres from fresh angles.
The book is useful for researchers and students within several
fields, including the development of special languages, genre and
register analysis, (historical) corpus linguistics, historical
pragmatics, and medical and cultural history.
Medical and scientific writing in English has evolved over more
than a millennium, from its genesis in the Anglo-Saxon era to its
present-day position as the 'lingua franca' of science. This 2004
volume focuses on its development as a genre in late medieval
English. During this period it emerged in the vernacular, as its
Graeco-Roman conventions were modified in a new socio-historical
context. Seven experts discuss the various linguistic and textual
processes involved in vernacularising science, and how they related
to communicative practices and to the writers and readers of
medical and scientific texts. Referring to authentic medieval
texts, they show how discourse communities adopted scriptorial
'house-styles', how vocabulary and code-switching patterns reflect
the multilingual context of the period, and how intertextuality
featured between shared materials. Bringing together several
perspectives on this research area, this book will be welcomed by
linguists and historians of science alike.
This volume reflects the results of a workshop on the investigation
of specialized discourse in a diachronic perspective, held within
the 15th European Symposium on Language for Special Purposes ('New
Trends in Specialized Discourse', Bergamo 2005). The articles deal
with developments from the late medieval period to the present day,
and the book encompasses studies in which the long-established
tradition of domain-specific English is highlighted. The fields of
contributions range from scientific to legal to political and
business discourse. Special attention is given to argumentation, in
an attempt to assess the time-depth of typical rhetorical
strategies. Some methodological innovations are introduced in
corpus linguistics. Numerous contributions bring new materials to
scholarly discussion, as recently released or in-progress
'second-generation' corpora are used as data. Recent changes in
present-day legal and scientific writing are also discussed as they
witness fast adaptation to new requirements, due to the advent and
growing familiarity of new technologies, international law and
changes in academia.
The late Middle Ages in England saw a flowering of scientific writing in the vernacular that moved English discourse in new directions and established new textual genres. This book examines the sociolinguistic causes and effects of that process, based on the empirical evidence from manuscripts and computerized files. Topics covered include scriptorial "house-styles", code-switching, translation strategies, and transmission processes. The book offers important new insights into vernacularization phenomena, and will be welcomed by historical linguists and medievalists alike.
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