Diachronic perspectives on address term systems / edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taavitsainen, Irma.

Jucker, Andreas H.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 107.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 107

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forms of address.

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

441 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Address term systems and their diachronic developments are discussed in a wide range of European languages in this volume. Most chapters focus on pronominal systems, and in particular on the criteria that govern the choices between a more intimate and a more distant or polite pronoun, as for instance thou and you in Early Modern English, vos and vuestra merced in sixteenth century Spanish or du and Sie in Modern German. Several contributions deal with situations in which more than two terms can be used and several also note co-occurrence patterns of pronominal and nominal forms of address. The volume provides a multivaried picture of the evolutionary lines of address term systems and a representative range of current approaches from pragmatics and sociolinguistics to conversation analysis. It is thus a timely contribution to the rapidly expanding field of historical pragmatics.

Contents:

Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Preface

Diachronic perspectives on address term systems

References

The T/V pronouns in later Middle English literature

Notes

The use of tu/vus in the Anglo-Norman Seinte Resureccion

Conclusion

"And if ye wol nat so, my lady sweete, thanne preye I thee, [...]."

From pragmatics to grammar

Appendix

Acknowledgment

The system of Czech bound address forms until 1700

Acknowledgments

Family first

Spanish forms of address in the sixteenth century

Conclusions

Acknowledgement

The co-occurrence of nominal and pronominal address forms in the Shakespeare Corpus

Summary and conclusion

Appendix: Abbreviations

Pronouns and nominal address in Shakespearean English

Pronominal usage in Shakespeare

You and thou in Early Modern English dialogues

Concluding remarks

Rectifying a standard deficiency

Tables

Demonstrative pronouns in addressing and referring in Finnish

The German address system

Index of Subjects

Index of Names

Index of Languages

The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612255427

9781423766506

1423766504

9789027296672

9027296677

9781282255425

1282255428

OCLC:

732804906