Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics: 220 (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series) - Hardcover

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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-communicative lexicon.
The articles follow three principal distinctions in that they investigate the meta-communicative profile of genres, meta-communicative lexical sets and meta-communicative ethics and ideologies. They cover a broad spectrum of text types that span the entire history of the English language from Anglo-Saxon chronicles to computer-mediated communication.

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Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Publication date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 902725625X
ISBN 13: 9789027256256
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
Editor: Busse Ulrich, H�bler Axel

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Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A Contribution to Historical Pragmatics (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series)

Ulrich Busse; Axel H�bler

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012

ISBN 10: 902725625X ISBN 13: 9789027256256

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, vii + 292 pages, NOT ex-library. Fine interior: clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps; firmly bound. Gentle external shelfwear, fine scratches. Published without a dust jacket. -- 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-communicative lexicon. The articles follow three principal distinctions in that they investigate the meta-communicative profile of genres, meta-communicative lexical sets and meta-communicative ethics and ideologies. They cover a broad spectrum of text types that span the entire history of the English language from Anglo-Saxon chronicles to computer-mediated communication. -- Contents: Introduction (by Axel H�bler); Part 1. Metacommunicative Profiles of Communicative Genres: - Cross-Sectional Studies [Sociability: Conversation and the Performance of Friendship in Early Eighteenth-Century Letters / Susan Fitzmaurice; "I Write You These Few Lines": Metacommunication and Pragmatics in Nineteenth-Century Scottish Emigrants' Letters / Marina Dossena] - Longitudinal Studies [Inscribed Orality and the End of a Discourse Archive: Metapragmatic and Metadiscursive Expressions in the Peterborough Chronicle / Richard J. Watts; Managing Disputes with Civility: On Seventeenth-Century Argumentative Discourse / Maurizio Gotti; The Metapragmatics of Civilized Belligerence / Jef Verschueren; The Metapragmatics of Hoaxing: Tracking a Genre Label from Edgar Allan Poe to Web 2.0 / Theresa Heyd; 12. From Speaker and Hearer to Chatter, Blogger and User: The Changing Metacommunicative Lexicon in Computer-Mediated Communication / Wolfram Bublitz]; Part 2. Metacommunicative Lexical Sets [Now as a Text Deictic Feature in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Medical Writing / Irma Taavitsainen & Turo Hiltunen; Performative and Non-Performative Uses of Speech-Act Verbs in the History of English / Thomas Kohnen; Verbs of Answering Revisited: A Corpus-Based Study of Their Pragmatic Development / Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen & Tine Defour; A Lexical Approach to Paralinguistic Communication of the Past / Axel H�bler]; Part 3. (Meta-)communicative Ethics and Ideologies [Historical Evidence of Communicative Maxims / Alexander Brock]; Name Index; Subject Index. Seller Inventory # 004611

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