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Historical Sociopragmatics

Historical Sociopragmatics
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 146
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ISBN-10 : 9789027286604
ISBN-13 : 9027286604
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Book Synopsis Historical Sociopragmatics by : Jonathan Culpeper

Download or read book Historical Sociopragmatics written by Jonathan Culpeper and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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