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Politics --- Sociolinguistics --- Pragmatics --- Discourse analysis --- Pragmatics. --- Analyse du discours --- Pragmatique --- Political aspects. --- Aspect politique

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Historical pragmatics is an emerging branch within linguistics and one of the most versatile fields in the historical study of English. It is placed at the intersection between pragmatics, historical linguistics and neighbouring disciplines like (historical) sociolinguistics. It is at such interfaces where exciting new developments take place. English Historical Pragmatics introduces this field to advanced linguistic students coming to the topic for the first time. It critically evaluates data sources and methodological approaches and takes a broad social pragmatics approach to micro issues within historical pragmatics such as discourse markers, terms of address and actions performed through language. It also covers macro issues of genre, medical and news discourse and fictional literature, and it outlines the underlying principles of language change through grammaticalisation, subjectivisation and pragmaticalisation.

Historical linguistics --- English language --- Pragmatics --- Anglais (langue) --- Pragmatique --- Analyse du discours --- Historical linguistics. --- Grammaire historique --- History. --- Pragmatique. --- Analyse du discours. --- Grammaire historique. --- Pragmatics. --- Metalanguage. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Second-order language --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Grammar, Historical. --- History --- Philosophy --- Germanic languages

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In pragmatics, it is widely accepted that the overall meaning of an utterance performed as part of a verbal interchange is basically underdetermined by the meaning of the sentence uttered. What counts as having been said for most contemporary authors goes far beyond sentence meaning. Rather, it has to be considered as a complex utterance level combining semantic knowledge and context-driven, pragmatic information as an integrated whole. The focus of the present book lies on central questions about the nature, the function and the acquisition of pragmatic inferencing strategies. The question of the relation between the explicit and the implicit side of verbal communication and its mutual delimitation is addressed. What is the character of pragmatic inferences, wherever they may be situated in a descriptive model? Are they nonce inferences arising anew in each act of communication, or do we have to conceive of them as based on regularities and conventions? What is an adequate model of the acquisition of the skills which are relevant for mastering the inferential processes leading to an adequate interpretation of utterances? And what is the relation between a theory of pragmatic enrichment and optimality theory with an OT pragmatics as a possible result?

Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Pragmatique --- Inférence --- Connecteurs (linguistique) --- Pragmatics. --- Inference. --- Semantics. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Connectives. --- Philosophy. --- 801.57 --- Pragmatiek --- Pragmatik. --- Schlussfolgern. --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Connectives. --- Language and languages - Philosophy. --- Inference --- Semantics --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Connectives --- Philosophy --- 801.57 Pragmatiek --- Connectives (Linguistics) --- Sentence connectors --- Ampliative induction --- Induction, Ampliative --- Inference (Logic) --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Pragmalinguistics --- Reasoning --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Function words --- Syntax --- Pragmatique. --- Inférence. --- Linguistics --- Philology

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Gives the reader an insight into various concepts, theories, issues and scholars that have shaped the field of pragmatics.

Pragmatics --- Pragmatiek --- encyclopedieën. --- woordenboeken. --- 800 <031> --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Encyclopedieën. Lexica --- 800 <031> Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Encyclopedieën. Lexica --- 801.57 --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- 801.57 Pragmatiek --- Philosophy --- Pragmatique --- Encyclopedias --- Encyclopédies --- Encyclopedieën. --- Woordenboeken.

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Vocatives proposes a formal syntactic approach to vocatives. The analysis focuses on the internal structure of vocatives phrases and on the mechanism through which a vocative phrase connects with the clause. Vocatives are nouns that encode conversational pragmatic features at their left periphery. Any vocative phrase with this structure becomes the indirect object of a Speech Act head mapped at the left periphery of clauses. This analysis has implications for the debate on whether pragmatic features are mapped into syntax, and, subsequently, on how a grammar of direct address may look like. Since particles of direct address, imperatives and exclamations fall under the same umbrella of speech acts, they all need re-assessment from the same perspective. 'This book is a tour de force: Virginia Hill brings the vocative a category which had so far remained marginal and ill understood into main stream syntactic research by tying it in with recent progress in the study of the syntactization of pragmatic functions. What used to be a fringe phenomenon will now be part of the core theory.' Liliane Haegeman, Ghent University 'Virginia Hill has redrawn the syntax-pragmatics interface by nudging syntax into domains that are traditionally considered to be purely pragmatic in nature. She has done this with sophisticated analysis and a breathtaking array of cross-linguistic data.' Shigery Miyagawa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Vocatives are a fundamental yet strangely neglected aspect of the grammar of many languages. General readers intrigued and perhaps puzzled by the nature of vocatives and how they are expressed cross-linguistically will find this a very helpful and enlightening book.' Martin Maiden, University of Oxford '

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Pragmatics. --- Forms of address. --- Noun. --- Syntax. --- Address, Forms of --- Address, Titles of --- Titles of address --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Pragmalinguistics --- Noun --- Nom (Linguistique) --- Titres de politesse --- Letter writing --- Salutations --- Titles of honor and nobility --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Nominals --- Forms of address --- Pragmatics --- Syntaxe --- Pragmatique --- Dictionnaires --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax