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The purpose of Diachronic Pragmatics is to exemplify historical pragmatics in its twofold sense of constituting both a subject matter and a methodology. This book demonstrates how diachronic pragmatics, with its complementary diachronic function-to-form mapping and diachronic form-to-function mapping, can be used to trace pragmatic developments within the English language. Through a set of case studies it explores the evolution of such speech acts as promises, curses, blessings, and greetings and such speech events as flyting and sounding. Collectively these "illocutionary biographies" manifest the workings of several important pragmatic processes and trends: increased epistemicity, subjectification, and discursization (a special kind of pragmaticalization). It also establishes the centrality of cultural traditions in diachronic reconstruction, examining various de-institutionalizations of extra-linguistic context and their affect on speech act performance. Taken together, the case studies presented in Diachronic Pragmatics highlight the complex interactions of formal, semantic, and pragmatic processes over time. Illustrating the possibilities of historical pragmatic pursuit, this book stands as an invitation to further research in a new and important discipline.

Historical linguistics --- English language --- Pragmatics --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Anglais (Langue) --- Actes de parole --- Pragmatique --- Discourse analysis --- Grammar, Historical --- Spoken English --- Analyse du discours --- Grammaire historique --- Anglais parlé --- Anglais parlé --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Linguistics / General --- English Language --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Colloquial English --- Philosophy --- Germanic languages --- Pragmatics. --- Discourse analysis. --- Grammar, Historical. --- Spoken English.

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Written Reliquaries: The resonance of orality in medieval English texts establishes the linguistic component of orality and oral tradition. The relics it examines are traces of spoken performance, artifacts of linguistic and cultural processes. Seven case studies animate verbal acts of making promises, quoting proverbs, pronouncing curses, speaking gibberish, praying Pater Nosters, invoking saints, and keeping silence. The study of their resonance is enabled by a methodological conjunction of historical pragmatics and oral theory. Insights from oral theory enlighten spoken traditions which in turn may be understood in the larger historical-pragmatic context of linguistic performance. The inquiry ranges across broad as well as narrow planes of reference to trace a complex set of cultural and linguistic interactions. In this way it reconstructs relevant discursive contexts, giving detailed accounts of underlying assumptions, traditions, and conventions. Doing so, the book demonstrates that an integrated methodology not only allows access to oral discourse in both Old English and Middle English but also provides insight into the fluid medieval interchange of literacy and orality.

Historical linguistics --- Pragmatics --- Anglo-Saxon language (c. 600-1100) --- Dialogue in literature. --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- English philology --- Literature, Medieval --- English philology, Middle --- Middle English philology --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Social aspects. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc.

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The English Language surveys the development of the English language from its Indo-European past to the present day. Beginning with a discussion of how language changes, the text examines historical change in English from its Indo-European start through its major periods (Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern English).

802.0-02 --- 802.0-02 Engels. Engelse taalkunde--?-02 --- Engels. Engelse taalkunde--?-02 --- Historical linguistics --- English language --- History --- English language - History - Textbooks --- Anglais (langue) --- Histoire --- Manuels d'enseignement

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English language --- History. --- 802.0-02 --- 802.0-02 Engels. Engelse taalkunde--?-02 --- Engels. Engelse taalkunde--?-02 --- History --- Germanic languages

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