Reanimated voices : speech reporting in a historical-pragmatic perspective / Daniel E. Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Daniel E.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 85.

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 85

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Indirect discourse.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Pragmatics.

Trial transcripts.

Physical Description:

xx, 380 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reanimated Voices addresses three activities: reporters evoking speech events; interpreters (re)constituting those speech events; and historical pragmaticians eavesdropping in time on the reporters and interpreters. Can one reconstruct aspects of pragmatic competence on the basis of written texts only? Reanimated Voices answers this in the affirmative. It offers a methodology for historical-pragmatic reconstruction to explain the synchronic patterns of variation in premodern writings. Reanimated Voices examines the distribution of reporting strategies in a corpus of medieval Russian texts. Forms preferred in specific recurring contexts are matched with the need(s) served by those contexts - a fit reflecting collective intentionality. Occasional "residual forms" -strategies that appear in contexts where others predominate- also reflect cooperative behavior; they index utterances departing from the prototype or unusual configurations of participants. Thus Reanimated Voices explores reporting as an activity of rational agents coordinating interpretation in accordance with cultural and institutional notions of relevance.

Contents:

REANIMATED VOICES

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

The pragmatics of reported speech

The text-kind: A pragmaphilological overview

Testimony

Residual forms in testimony

The question framework

Reporting from judicial-referral hearings

Layered reports

Reporting the verdict

Conclusions

Notes

References

Appendix: Text-kind and date of the investigated trial transcripts

Name index

Subject index

PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-342) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-16247-0

9786612162473

90-272-9813-0

OCLC:

70766167