Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmaticsUlrich Busse, Axel Hübler John Benjamins Publishing, 15 mai 2012 - 292 pages The volume contributes to historical pragmatics an important chapter on what has so far not been paid adequate attention to, i.e. historical metapragmatics. More particularly, the collected papers apply a meta-communicative approach to historical texts by focusing on lexis that either directly or metaphorically identifies or characterizes entire forms of communication or single acts and act sequences or minor units. Within the context of their use, such lexical expressions, in fact, provide a key for disclosing historical forms of communication; taken out of context, they build the meta-communicative lexicon. The articles follow three principal distinctions in that they investigate the meta-communicative profile of genres, meta-communicative lexical sets and meta-communicative ethics and ideologies. They cover a broad spectrum of text types that span the entire history of the English language from Anglo-Saxon chronicles to computer-mediated communication. |
Table des matières
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I write you these few lines | 45 |
12 Longitudinal studies | 65 |
Inscribed orality and the end of a discourse archive | 67 |
Managing disputes with civility | 89 |
Part 2
Metacommunicative lexical sets | 177 |
Now as a text deictic feature in Late Medievaland Early Modern English medical writing | 179 |
Performative and nonperformative usesof speechact verbs in the history of English | 207 |
Verbs of answering revisited | 223 |
A lexical approach to paralinguisticcommunication of the past | 247 |
Part 3
Metacommunicative ethics and ideologies | 269 |
Historical evidence of communicative maxims | 271 |
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The metapragmatics of civilized belligerence
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The metapragmatics of hoaxing | 129 |
From speaker and hearer to chatter blogger and user | 151 |
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17th centuries Addison addressee Amsterdam/Philadelphia analysis answer archive Boyle Boyle’s Bublitz Cambridge Carneades century Chronicle cognitive context conversation correspondence defined definition deictic diachronic diflerent directive speech-act verbs discourse Dossena Early Modern English encoder English data example expressions field final find findings first first-person forms of communication frequency friendship function genre label global warming Helsinki Corpus historical pragmatics inscribed orality instances interaction interjections Iohn Benjamins kinesic Kohnen language late medieval letters lexemes lexical items linguistic maxims meaning metacomments metacommunicative lexicon metacommunicative terms metadiscourse metaphorical metapragmatic metatext Middle English occurs ofthe Old English Oxford Pahta paralinguistic participants period Peterborough Chronicle political pragmatic maxims pragmatic rules pronouns reader recipient refer reflect reflexive reply Sceptical Chymist scientific Section semantic sense significance social specific speech Swift Taavitsainen tion treatises University Press users Verschueren voice figures weblogs word hoax written