Reanimated voices: speech reporting in a historical-pragmatic perspective
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Main Author: Collins, Daniel E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. ©2001
Series:Pragmatics & beyond 85
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-342) and indexes
REANIMATED VOICES; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; The pragmatics of reported speech; The text-kind: A pragmaphilological overview; Testimony; Residual forms in testimony; The question framework; Reporting from judicial-referral hearings; Layered reports; Reporting the verdict; Conclusions; Notes; References; Appendix: Text-kind and date of the investigated trial transcripts; Name index; Subject index; PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.
Reanimated Voices addresses three activities: reporters evoking speech events; interpreters (re)constituting those speech events; and historical pragmaticians eavesdropping in time on the reporters and interpreters. Can one reconstruct aspects of pragmatic competence on the basis of written texts only? Reanimated Voices answers this in the affirmative. It offers a methodology for historical-pragmatic reconstruction to explain the synchronic patterns of variation in premodern writings. Reanimated Voices examines the distribution of reporting strategies in a corpus of medieval Russian texts. For
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 380 pages)
ISBN:1588110230
9027298130
9789027298133

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