Methods in Historical Corpus Pragmatics

Auteur

Daniela Landert is Professor of English Linguistics at Heidelberg University. Her research interests include historical pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, the study of (spontaneous) spoken language, pragmatics of fiction, and modality. She is the author of Personalisation in Mass Media Communication (John Benjamins, 2014) and Editor of the Journal of Historical Pragmatics.

Texte du rabat

"Drawing on an extensive corpus-based study, this book explores theoretical and empirical discussions of stance research applied to data from Early Modern English. It also presents a new method for the study of pragmatic phenomena, making it essential reading for researchers and students in both historical pragmatics and corpus pragmatics"--

Contenu

Preface; 1. Introduction; Part 1. Theoretical Background: 2. Historical corpus pragmatics; 3. Stance in Early Modern English; Part II. Methodology: 4. Compiling inventories of lexical stance markers; 5. Retrieving high-density passages; Part III. Empirical Studies: 6. Lexical stance markers in high-density passages; 7. Contextual factors and rhetorical strategies; 8. Meta-communicative expressions and stance: I say and I tell (you); 9. Expressing certainty in different genres; 10. Conclusion; Data; Appendix A: List of high-density passages; Appendix B: Stance inventory.