03517nam 2200529 450 991079455710332120230126222158.090-485-5016-510.1515/9789048550166(CKB)4100000011971257(DE-B1597)579583(DE-B1597)9789048550166(OCoLC)1265516367(MdBmJHUP)muse99345(MiAaPQ)EBC6648863(Au-PeEL)EBL6648863(OCoLC)1259321988(UkCbUP)CR9789048550166(EXLCZ)99410000001197125720220319d2021 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe medieval life of language grammar and pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe /Mark AmslerAmsterdam :Amsterdam University Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (264 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;10Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Oct 2021).Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Where is Medieval Pragmatics? -- 1 Medieval Pragmatics: Philosophical and Grammatical Contexts -- 2 Interjections: Does Affect have Grammar? -- 3 Allas Context -- 4 Alisoun’s Giggle, or the Miller Does Pragmatics -- 5 How Heretics Talk, According to Bernard Gui and William Thorpe -- 6 Margery Kempe’s Strategic Vague Language -- One More Thing -- Bibliography -- IndexThe Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe explores the complex history of medieval pragmatic theory and ideas and metapragmatic awareness across social discourses. Pragmatic thinking about language and communication are revealed in grammar, semiotics, philosophy, and literature. Part historical reconstruction, part social history, part language theory, Amsler supplements the usual materials for the history of medieval linguistics and discusses the pragmatic implications of grammatical treatises on the interjection, Bacon's sign theory, logic texts, Chaucer's poetry, inquisitors' accounts of heretic speech, and life writing by William Thorpe and Margery Kempe. Medieval and contemporary pragmatic theory are contrasted in terms of their philosophical and linguistic orientations. Aspects of medieval pragmatic theory and practice, especially polysemy, equivocation, affective speech, and recontextualization, show how pragmatic discourse informed social controversies and attitudes toward sincere, vague, and heretical speech. Relying on Bakhtinian dialogism, critical discourse analysis, and conversation analysis, Amsler situates a key period in the history of linguistics within broader social and discursive fields of practice.Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;10.LinguisticsHistoryTo 1500(History of) Pragmatics, Medieval linguistics, Literary pragmatics, Religious and social dissent.LinguisticsHistory410.9Amsler Mark1949-172605MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910794557103321The medieval life of language3865051UNINA