Investigations Into The Meta-communicative Lexicon Of English: A Contribution To Historical Pragmatics (pragmatics & Beyond New Series)
by Dr. Ulrich Busse /
2012 / English / PDF
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The volume contributes to historical pragmatics an important
chapter on what has so far not been paid adequate attention to,
i.e. historical metapragmatics. More particularly, the collected
papers apply a meta-communicative approach to historical texts by
focusing on lexis that either directly or metaphorically identifies
or characterizes entire forms of communication or single acts and
act sequences or minor units. Within the context of their use, such
lexical expressions, in fact, provide a key for disclosing
historical forms of communication; taken out of context, they build
the meta-communicative lexicon.
The volume contributes to historical pragmatics an important
chapter on what has so far not been paid adequate attention to,
i.e. historical metapragmatics. More particularly, the collected
papers apply a meta-communicative approach to historical texts by
focusing on lexis that either directly or metaphorically identifies
or characterizes entire forms of communication or single acts and
act sequences or minor units. Within the context of their use, such
lexical expressions, in fact, provide a key for disclosing
historical forms of communication; taken out of context, they build
the meta-communicative lexicon.
The articles follow three principal distinctions in that they
investigate the meta-communicative profile of genres,
meta-communicative lexical sets and meta-communicative ethics and
ideologies. They cover a broad spectrum of text types that span the
entire history of the English language from Anglo-Saxon chronicles
to computer-mediated communication.
The articles follow three principal distinctions in that they
investigate the meta-communicative profile of genres,
meta-communicative lexical sets and meta-communicative ethics and
ideologies. They cover a broad spectrum of text types that span the
entire history of the English language from Anglo-Saxon chronicles
to computer-mediated communication.