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Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language
Change continues the project of initiating and energizing the
conversations among historians of the English language fostered by
the series of conferences on studying the history of the English
language (SHEL), begun in 2000 at UCLA. It follows in the footsteps
of three high-profile SHEL-based collections of peer-reviewed
research papers and point-counterpoint commentaries. In the current
volume, the editors invited contributors to reflect upon their
approaches and practices in undertaking historical studies,
focusing particularly on the methods deployed in selecting and
analyzing data. The essays in this volume represent interests in
the study of linguistic change in English that range across
different periods, genres, and aspects of the language and show
different approaches and use of evidence to deal with the subject.
They also represent the current state of research in the field and
the nature of the debates in which scholars and historians engage
as regards the nature of the evidence adduced in the explanation of
change and the robustness of heuristics. The editors share a strong
interest in examining the evidence that informs and grounds
research in their fields at the same time as interrogating the
heuristics employed by their colleagues for the histories they
present. The contributions to the volume give expression to these
interests. Contributors are: Richard Hogg (to whose memory the
volume is dedicated), William Labov, Elizabeth Traugott, Rob Fulk,
Thomas Cable, Jennifer Tran-Smith, Charles Li, Christina
Fitzgerald, David Denison, Christopher Palmer, Don Chapman, Graeme
Trousdale, Joan Beal, Connie Eble, Stefan Dollinger and Raymond
Hickey. The volume is of interest to scholars and postgraduate and
research students in the history of English, English philology, and
(English) historical linguistics.
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.
This volume focuses on the nature of official correspondence
produced m the period after 1500, from Early Modern to
nineteenth-century English. The contributions reflect the extent to
which the genre is somewhat plastic in this period, gradually
acquiring distinguishing conventions and protocols as the
situations in which the letters themselves are encoded acquire more
distinctiveness. Although correspondence has long been the object
of diachronic studies, very little seems to be available as far as
specialized usage is concerned, hence the specific interest in
letters exchanged within scientific, diplomatic, and business
networks. In addition, the study of business and official
correspondence offered here profits from a multi-disciplinary and
multi-methodological approach, as it relies on a rich array of
databases and corpora of correspondence, ranging from highly
specialized collections to more broadly constructed diagnostic
corpora, in which correspondence is just one register or text-type.
While specific attention is paid to phenomena relating to the
expression of positive and negative politeness through the
investigation of authentic (rather than constructed) texts,
methodological issues are also taken into consideration.
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