Historical sociopragmatics /

Historical sociopragmatics /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (135 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Benjamins current topics ; v. 31 Benjamins current topics ; v. 31.
Subject:	Language and languages -- Philosophy. Communication -- Philosophy. Sociolinguistics. Pragmatics. Communicative competence. Social interaction. Communication -- Philosophy. Communicative competence. Language and languages -- Philosophy. Pragmatics. Social interaction. Sociolinguistics. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11099029

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Other authors / contributors:	Culpeper, Jonathan, 1966-
ISBN:	9789027286604 9027286604 9781283144070 1283144077 9789027202505 9027202508 9786613144072 661314407X
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Annotation 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.
Other form:	Print version: Historical sociopragmatics. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011 9789027202505

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. About the Authors
2. Historical sociopragmatics
3. Structures and expectations
4. The\sociopragmatics of a lovers' spat
5. Altering distance and defining authority
6. Variation and change in patterns of self-reference in early English correspondence
7. Identifying key sociophilological usage in plays and trial proceedings (1640-1760)
8. Index