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OverviewThis research monograph examines familiar letters in 17th- and 18th-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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Susan Fitzmaurice (Northern Arizona University)Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co Volume: 95 Weight: 0.520kg ISBN: 9789027251152ISBN 10: 9027251150 Pages: 263 Publication Date: 08 August 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis is a rich and stimulating book which carries much information and valuable insights for readers from different backgrounds. It is based on a well-chosen corpus of letters and it provides perceptive and fruitful analyses of letters from a wide array of social contexts and with pragmatic functions characteristic of their historical period. -- Gerd Fritz, University of Giessen, in Pragmatics & Cognition, Vol. 13:2 (2005) Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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