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This volume presents a variety of pragmatic and discourse analytical approaches to a wide range of linguistic data and historical texts, including data from English, French, Irish, Latin, and Spanish. This diversity of research questions and methods is a feature of the field of historical pragmatics...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Skaffari, Janne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., ©2005.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 134.
Temas:
Discourse analysis.
Criticism, Textual > History.
Analyse du discours.
Critique textuelle > Histoire.
pragmatics.
REFERENCE.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Vocabulary.
Criticism, Textual.
Historische taalwetenschap.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note
  • A frame for windows
  • Notes
  • References
  • I. Discourse in the public sphere
  • News discourse
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Early English newspapers and periodicity
  • 3. Mass circulation and the top-down principle
  • 4. The modularisation of a continuous flood of news
  • 5. The online stream of breaking news
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
  • Advertising discourse in eighteenth-century English newspapers
  • 1. Introduction.
  • 2. The sociolinguistic framework
  • 2.1. The participants
  • 2.2. The objects relevant to the communication
  • 2.3. The medium of communication
  • 2.4. The purpose of communication
  • 3. The main features of the language of advertising
  • 3.1. Attention value
  • 3.2. Readability
  • 3.3. Memorability
  • 3.4. Selling power
  • 4. Awareness of the linguistic features of advertisements
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • References
  • Presidential inaugural addresses
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Setting IAs into a context
  • 3. Participants in the inaugural ceremony
  • 4. Linguistics factors.
  • 4.1. Quotations and borrowings
  • 4.2. Increasing orality
  • 4.3. Personal pronouns
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • Freedom of speech at stake
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background on freedom of speech
  • 3. The framework of informal fallacies
  • 4. Applying the concept of an informal fallacy
  • 5. Arguing for the Sedition Act of 1798
  • 6. John Allen's speech in the debate of July 5, 1798
  • 7. Summing up
  • Note
  • References
  • Text-initiating strategies in eighteenth-century newspaper headlines
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Method and corpus
  • 3. Verbal headlines
  • 4. Syntactic combinations.
  • 5. Stylistic dimensions
  • 5.1. Unstressed forms
  • 5.2. Topicalised forms
  • 5.3. Dislocated forms
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
  • II. Science and academia
  • Patterns of agentivity and narrativity in early science discourse
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Narrativity and science texts
  • 2.1. Agents and events in early and modern science texts
  • 2.2. Narrative form and narrative function
  • 3. Linguistic reflections of the de-narrativisation of science texts
  • 3.1. Data
  • 3.2. Pronoun usage reflecting narrativity and argument in early science discourse.
  • 3.3. Agentivity within changing patterns of discourse organisation
  • 4. Summary
  • Notes
  • References
  • The economics academic lecture in the nineteenth century
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data and methodology
  • 3. Interpersonal and evaluative devices
  • 3.1. Participants' voices in the text
  • 3.2. Questioning and quoting
  • 3.3. Evaluative metadiscursive devices
  • 4. Concluding observations
  • Note
  • References
  • Contesting authorities
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. John Wilkins (1614-1672)
  • 1.2. Discovery
  • 2. Citation analysis
  • 3. Quantitative analysis.

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