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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816816003321

Titolo

Investigations into the meta-communicative lexicon of English : a contribution to historical pragmatics / / edited by Ulrich Busse, Axel Hübler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012

ISBN

1-280-38038-1

9786613558299

90-272-7461-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond ; ; new ser., 220

Altri autori (Persone)

BusseUlrich

HüblerAxel

Disciplina

401/.45

Soggetti

Pragmatics

English language - Discourse analysis

Metalanguage

Historical linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Metacommunicative profiles of communicative genres -- pt. 2. Metacommunicative lexical sets -- pt. 3. (Meta-)communicative ethics and ideologies.

Sommario/riassunto

The volume contributes to historical pragmatics an important chapter on what has so far not been paid adequate attention to, i.e. historical metapragmatics. More particularly, the collected papers apply a meta-communicative approach to historical texts by focusing on lexis that either directly or metaphorically identifies or characterizes entire forms of communication or single acts and act sequences or minor units. Within the context of their use, such lexical expressions, in fact, provide a key for disclosing historical forms of communication; taken out of context, they build the meta-commun