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HISTORICAL SOCIOPRAGMATICS
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| By: |
Jonathan Culpeper (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£67.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9027202508 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789027202505 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
25 May, 2011 |
| Series: |
Benjamins Current Topics 31 |
| Pages: |
144 |
| Description: |
Maps out historical sociopragmatics, a multidisciplinary field located within historical pragmatics, but overlapping with socially-oriented fields, such as sociolinguistics and critical discourse analysis. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
+ index |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
John Benjamins Publishing Co |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |