Author: Susan M. Fitzmaurice
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9781588111869
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this method through case studies that illuminate how modern pragmatic theory may be applied to distant speech communities in both history and culture in order to reveal how speakers understand one another and how they exploit intended and unintended meanings for their own communicative ends. The analysis demonstrates the application of pragmatic theory (including speech act theory, deixis, politeness, implicature, and relevance theory) to the study of historical, literary and fictional letters from extended correspondences, producing an historically informed, richly situated account of the meanings and interpretations of those letters that a close reading affords. This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as to social and cultural historians, and literary critics.
The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English
Author: Susan M. Fitzmaurice
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9781588111869
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this method through case studies that illuminate how modern pragmatic theory may be applied to distant speech communities in both history and culture in order to reveal how speakers understand one another and how they exploit intended and unintended meanings for their own communicative ends. The analysis demonstrates the application of pragmatic theory (including speech act theory, deixis, politeness, implicature, and relevance theory) to the study of historical, literary and fictional letters from extended correspondences, producing an historically informed, richly situated account of the meanings and interpretations of those letters that a close reading affords. This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as to social and cultural historians, and literary critics.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9781588111869
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this method through case studies that illuminate how modern pragmatic theory may be applied to distant speech communities in both history and culture in order to reveal how speakers understand one another and how they exploit intended and unintended meanings for their own communicative ends. The analysis demonstrates the application of pragmatic theory (including speech act theory, deixis, politeness, implicature, and relevance theory) to the study of historical, literary and fictional letters from extended correspondences, producing an historically informed, richly situated account of the meanings and interpretations of those letters that a close reading affords. This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as to social and cultural historians, and literary critics.
The familiar epistles
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 919
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 919
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The Familiar Epistles ... Translated Out of the Spanish Toung, by Edward Hellows, Etc. B.L.
The Familiar Epistles of Mr. John Company to Mr. John Bull. Reprinted, with Additions, from Blackwood's Magazine
The familiar epistles
The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English
Author: Susan M. Fitzmaurice
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027251150
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this method through case studies that illuminate how modern pragmatic theory may be applied to distant speech communities in both history and culture in order to reveal how speakers understand one another and how they exploit intended and unintended meanings for their own communicative ends. The analysis demonstrates the application of pragmatic theory (including speech act theory, deixis, politeness, implicature, and relevance theory) to the study of historical, literary and fictional letters from extended correspondences, producing an historically informed, richly situated account of the meanings and interpretations of those letters that a close reading affords. This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as to social and cultural historians, and literary critics.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027251150
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this method through case studies that illuminate how modern pragmatic theory may be applied to distant speech communities in both history and culture in order to reveal how speakers understand one another and how they exploit intended and unintended meanings for their own communicative ends. The analysis demonstrates the application of pragmatic theory (including speech act theory, deixis, politeness, implicature, and relevance theory) to the study of historical, literary and fictional letters from extended correspondences, producing an historically informed, richly situated account of the meanings and interpretations of those letters that a close reading affords. This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as to social and cultural historians, and literary critics.
The Familiar Epistles of Sir Anthony of Gueuara, Preacher, Chronicler, and Counceller to the Emperour Charles the Fifth. Translated Out of the Spanish Toung, by Edward Hellowes, Groome of the Leashe, and Now Newly Imprinted, Corrected, [and] Enlarged with Other Epistles of the Same Author. VVherein are Contained Very Notable Letters ...
The familiar epistles
The Familiar Epistles of Sir Anthony of Gueuara, Preacher, Chronicler, and Counceller to the Emperour Charles the Fifth. Translated Out of the Spanish Toung, by Edward Hellowes, Groome of the Leashe, and Now Newly Imprinted, Corrected, [and] Enlarged with Other Epistles of the Same Author. VVherein are Contained Very Notable Letters
Author: Bp Antonio de Guevara
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description