Opening windows on texts and discourses of the past

Summary: 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, which by its very nature has to take into account the multiplicity of historical contexts and the infinite variety of human interaction. This is highlighted in the book s introduction by means of the metaphor of "opening windows". Each chapter is a window affording a different view of the linguistic and textual landscape. Some of these windows were opened by historical linguists who have acquired discourse perspectives, some by pragmaticians with historical interests, and others by literary scholars drawing from linguistic pragmatics. Contributors include L. J. Brinton, A. H. Jucker, F. Salager-Meyer, I. Taavitsainen, B. Wehr, L. Wright, and sixteen others.

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ISBN: 9789027294586 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9027294585 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781588116260
ISBN: 1588116263
ISBN: 1588116263
ISBN: 9789027253774
ISBN: 9027253773 (Trade Cloth)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (vii, 416 p.) : ill., maps.
Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., c2005.

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General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.