The familiar letter in early modern English: a pragmatic approach
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Main Author: Fitzmaurice, Susan M. 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2002
Series:Pragmatics & beyond 95
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index
The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: The pragmatics of epistolary conversation; Chapter 2: Context and the linguistic construction of epistolary worlds; Chapter 3: Making and reading epistolary meaning; Chapter 4: Sociable letters, acts of advice and medical counsel; Chapter 5: Epistolary acts of seeking and dispensing patronage; Chapter 6: Intersubjectivity and the writing of the epistolary interlocutor; Chapter 7: Relevance and the consequences of unintended epistolary meanings
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 dem
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (258 pages, [10] pages of plates)
ISBN:1588111865
9027251150
9027297398
9781588111869
9789027251152
9789027297396

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