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Diachronic Pragmatics
Leslie K. Arnovick
其他書名
Seven Case Studies in English Illocutionary Development
出版
John Benjamins Publishing
, 1999-01-01
主題
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
ISBN
9789027250834
9027250839
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eMBe-5hvghAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.