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Investigations into the meta-communicative lexicon of English : a contribution to historical pragmatics / edited by Ulrich Busse, Axel Hübler.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 220.
- Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 220
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pragmatics.
- English language--Discourse analysis.
- English language.
- Metalanguage.
- Historical linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- 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-commun
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Metacommunicative profiles of communicative genres
- pt. 2. Metacommunicative lexical sets
- pt. 3. (Meta-)communicative ethics and ideologies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613558299
- 9781280380389
- 1280380381
- 9789027274618
- 9027274614
- OCLC:
- 792688683
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