Historical sociopragmatics / edited by Jonathan Culpeper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Culpeper, Jonathan, 1966-

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; v. 31.

Benjamins current topics ; v. 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Communication--Philosophy.

Communication.

Sociolinguistics.

Pragmatics.

Communicative competence.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Historical Sociopragmatics

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

About the Authors

Historical sociopragmatics

1. What is sociopragmatics?

2. What is historical sociopragmatics?

3. The chapters

Notes

References

Structures and expectations

1. Introduction

2. Data

3. Theory and method

3.1 Sociopragmatics and local contexts

3.2 Critical discourse analysis

3.3 Frame analysis

4. Analysis

4.1 Micro analysis of text

4.2 Micro analysis of discursive practice

4.3 Micro analysis of social practice

5. Micro analysis in a macro context: scribal practices

5.1 Variation in the opening formulae

5.2 The health formula

5.3 Syntactic variation in the openings

5.4 Variation in the closing formulae

6. Conclusion and discussion

Acknowledgements

Note

Sources

The sociopragmatics of a lovers' spat

2. Relevance and historical pragmatic analysis

3. Contexts of the correspondence

4. The sociopragmatics of an eighteenth-century courtship

4.1 Edward pursues Mary

4.2 Contextual interlude

4.3 Mary resists Edward

5. Conclusion

Appendix

Altering distance and defining authority

2. Social deixis and referential terms

2.1 Distance, authority, and group membership

2.2 Shared knowledge and reference

3. Material: Letters and journals

4. Referential terms in the material

4.1 Case study 1: Third-person referential friend

4.2 Case study 2: Sequences of self- and addressee-oriented third-person reference

5. On the functions of referential terms in the material

5.1 Friends and familiars

5.2 Addressee- and self-oriented reference in the third person

6. Conclusion

References.

Variation and change in patterns of self-reference in early English correspondence

2. Self-reference and indexicality in early English correspondence

3. Sixteenth- and eighteenth-century gentlemen's letters

4. Increasing self-reference

5. I-clusters

5.1 Three-word I-clusters

5.2 I + verb clusters

6. Discussion

7. Conclusion

Identifying key sociophilological usage in plays and trial proceedings (1640-1760)

2. The Sociopragmatic Corpus

2.1 The dyads to be investigated in this study

3. Using text analysis tools to explore keyness

3.1 The Historical Tagger

4. Results and discussion

4.1 Female examinees to examiners in trial proceedings

4.2 Male examinees to examiners in trial proceedings

4.3 Examiners to examinees in trial proceedings

4.4 Mistress to servant in play-texts

4.5 Master to servant in play-texts

5. Reviewing the sociophilological approach

6. A final word about annotation and "keyness"

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613144072

9781283144070

1283144077

9789027286604

9027286604

OCLC:

742621019