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The familiar letter in early modern English : a pragmatic approach /
This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this meth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 95. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this method through case studies that illuminate how modern pragmatic theory may be applied to distant speech communities in both history and culture in order to reveal how speakers understand one another and how they exploit intended and unintended meanings for their own communicative ends. The analysis dem. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (258 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1588111865 9781588111869 9027251150 9789027251152 9789027297396 9027297398 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |