Investigations into the meta-communicative lexicon of English : a contribution to historical pragmatics

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Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. From a new vantage point; 2. The metacommunicative lexicon as a (meta) pragmatic research paradigm; 3. The significance of the metacommunicative lexicon for historical pragmatics; 4. Previewing the papers of this volume; References; Part I. Metacommunicative profiles of communicative genres; 1.1 Cross-sectional studies; Sociability; 1. Introduction; 2. Talking on paper: Conversation and friendship. 3. Performing epistolary friendship4. Lexical interlude: Contemporary meanings of friend; 5. Embodying friendship: An intimate correspondence; 6. Friendship, conversation and epistolary metacommunicative language; References; "I write you these few lines"; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The corpus under investigation; 2. Metacommunicative vocabulary in emigrants' letters; 2.1 Reifying the letter: Focus on intratextual reality; 2.2 The emigrant letter as message: Focus on extratextual reality; 3. Concluding remarks; References; 1.2 Longitudinal studies. Inscribed orality and the end of a discourse archive1. Introduction; 2. Metapragmatic and metadiscursive expressions; 3. Foucault's notion of the "archive"; 4. Inscribed orality; 5. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the archive it instantiated; 6. Inscribed orality and the breakdown of the archive; 7. The disappearance of the ASC: The end of a discourse archive; References; Managing disputes with civility; 1. Introduction; 2. The civility of scientific discourse; 3. Linguistic clarity; 4. Accuracy in reporting facts and expressing opinions; 5. Objectivity. 6. The explicitness of the argumentative structure7. Conclusion; References; The metapragmatics of civilized belligerence; 1. Pretext; 2. Antecedents; 2.1 The metapragmatic lexicon and me; 2.2 An ecology of the public sphere; 3. From the Indian Mutiny to Laws and Customs of War; 4. Laws and customs of war; 4.1 Performative positioning; 4.2 Ideological framing; 4.3 Language-ideological framing; 4.4 Variable legal framing; 4.5 Performative reflexivity; 4.6 Directive and commissive terms of agreement; 4.7 Intratextual and intertextual reflexivity; 5. Conclusion; References. The metapragmatics of hoaxing1. Introduction: Genre theory vs. metapragmatics; 2. What is a hoax? A genre theorist's attempt at definition; 3. Origins: Etymology and conditions of emergence; 4. Variation and change in the metapragmatics of hoaxing; 4.1 "Authored" hoaxes from the 18th and 19th centuries; 4.2 "Unauthored" anonymous hoaxes from the 20th century; 4.3 Digital hoaxes from the turn of the 20th to the 21th century; 5. A recent metapragmatic twist: Attributions of "hoaxing" in political debates; 5.1 Global warming/climate change; 5.2 Evolution/creationism/intelligent design. 6. Conclusion