Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past

Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past
Title Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past PDF eBook
Author Janne Skaffari
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 440
Release 2005-01-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9789027253774

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Some of these windows were opened by historical linguists who have acquired discourse perspectives, some by pragmaticians with historical interests, and others by literary scholars drawing from linguistic pragmatics."--BOOK JACKET.

Discourse Modality

Discourse Modality
Title Discourse Modality PDF eBook
Author Senko K. Maynard
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 329
Release 1993-01-01
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9027250367

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The emotional aspects of language have so far not received the attention they deserve. This study focuses on nonpropositional, i.e. expressive and interactional meanings of Japanese signs, with special emphasis on understanding their cognitive, psychological and social meanings. It shows how the Japanese language is richly endowed to express personal voice and emotive nuances, and confronts the theoretical issues related to this. The author proposes a new theoretical framework for Discourse Modality, a primary concern for Japanese speakers, to analyze the 'expressiveness' of language.

Medical Writing in Early Modern English

Medical Writing in Early Modern English
Title Medical Writing in Early Modern English PDF eBook
Author Irma Taavitsainen
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 321
Release 2011-02-03
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1139493833

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Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts, containing over two million words of medical writing from 1500 to 1700. The book presents results from large-scale empirical research on the new materials and provides a more detailed and diversified picture of domain-specific developments than any previous book. Three introductory chapters provide the sociohistorical, disciplinary and textual frame for nine empirical studies, which address a range of key issues in a wide variety of medical genres from fresh angles. The book is useful for researchers and students within several fields, including the development of special languages, genre and register analysis, (historical) corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and medical and cultural history.

Historical Outlines from Sound to Text

Historical Outlines from Sound to Text
Title Historical Outlines from Sound to Text PDF eBook
Author Laurel Brinton
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 245
Release 2017-09-25
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110523035

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The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history of English and explores key questions and debates. A re-evaluation of the concept of periodization is followed by overviews of changes in the traditional linguistic areas – phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics – and chapters on prosody, idioms, fixed expressions, onomastics, orthography, register, and standardization, among others.

Speech Acts in the History of English

Speech Acts in the History of English
Title Speech Acts in the History of English PDF eBook
Author Andreas H. Jucker
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 334
Release 2008-04-10
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027291411

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Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they use them in the same way? How did they signal speech act values and how did they negotiate them in case of uncertainty? These are some of the questions that are addressed in this volume in innovative case studies that cover a wide range of speech acts from Old English to Present-day English. All the studies offer careful discussions of methodological and theoretical issues as well as detailed descriptions of specific speech acts. The first part of the volume is devoted to directives and commissives, i.e. speech acts such as requests, commands and promises. The second part is devoted to expressives and assertives and deals with speech acts such as greetings, compliments and apologies. The third part, finally, contains technical reports that deal primarily with the problem of extracting speech acts from historical corpora.

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context
Title Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context PDF eBook
Author Alexandra D'Arcy
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages 257
Release 2017-09-21
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027265313

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Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This volume explores the various contexts of like, each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical context, its developmental context, its social context, and its ideological context. The final chapter examines the ways in which these contexts overlap and inform current understanding of acquisition, structure, change, and embedding. The volume also features an extensive appendix, containing numerous examples of like in its pragmatic functions from a range of English corpora, both diachronic and synchronic. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of English historical linguistics, grammaticalization, language variation and change, discourse-pragmatics and the interface of these fields with formal linguistic theory.

Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-century Narrative Fiction

Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-century Narrative Fiction
Title Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-century Narrative Fiction PDF eBook
Author Beatrix Busse
Publisher
Pages 253
Release 2020
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0190212365

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The present study investigates speech, writing, and thought presentation in a corpus of 19th-century narrative fiction including, for instance, the novels Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Oliver Twist, and many others.