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The medieval life of language : grammar and pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe /
The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe' explores the complex history of medieval pragmatic theory and ideas and metapragmatic awareness across social discourses. Pragmatic thinking about language and communication are revealed in grammar, semiotics, philosophy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
14. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Where is Medieval Pragmatics?
- 1. Medieval Pragmatics: Philosophical and Grammatical Contexts
- Three Terms and a Theory
- Roger Bacon's Semiotics and Pragmatics
- Peter (of) John Olivi: Pragmatics and the Will to Speak
- 2. Interjections: Does Affect have Grammar?
- 3. Allas Context
- Allas: A Case for Context
- 4. Alisoun's Giggle, or the Miller Does Pragmatics
- Does a Giggle Mean?
- Impoliteness, Hedging, and Textual Pragmatics
- Polysemy, Bullseyes, Misfires, or How Narrative Escapes Intention
- Centrifugal Narrative Contracts
- 5. How Heretics Talk, According to Bernard Gui and William Thorpe
- Pragmatic Talk, Pragmatic Action
- Bernard Gui's Conversation Analysis and Institutional Discourse
- William Thorpe's Relationship Pragmatics
- 6. Margery Kempe's Strategic Vague Language
- Cooperate or Else
- Vaguing Pragmatics
- Kempe Comes to the Archbishop
- Kempe Tells a Tale
- One More Thing
- Bibliography
- Index.