LEADER 03517nam 2200529 450 001 9910828066203321 005 20230126222158.0 010 $a90-485-5016-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9789048550166 035 $a(CKB)4100000011971257 035 $a(DE-B1597)579583 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789048550166 035 $a(OCoLC)1265516367 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse99345 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6648863 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6648863 035 $a(OCoLC)1259321988 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9789048550166 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011971257 100 $a20220319d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe medieval life of language $egrammar and pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe /$fMark Amsler 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cAmsterdam University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (264 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aKnowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;$v10 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Oct 2021). 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tTable of Contents -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction: Where is Medieval Pragmatics? -- $t1 Medieval Pragmatics: Philosophical and Grammatical Contexts -- $t2 Interjections: Does Affect have Grammar? -- $t3 Allas Context -- $t4 Alisoun?s Giggle, or the Miller Does Pragmatics -- $t5 How Heretics Talk, According to Bernard Gui and William Thorpe -- $t6 Margery Kempe?s Strategic Vague Language -- $tOne More Thing -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe explores the complex history of medieval pragmatic theory and ideas and metapragmatic awareness across social discourses. Pragmatic thinking about language and communication are revealed in grammar, semiotics, philosophy, and literature. Part historical reconstruction, part social history, part language theory, Amsler supplements the usual materials for the history of medieval linguistics and discusses the pragmatic implications of grammatical treatises on the interjection, Bacon's sign theory, logic texts, Chaucer's poetry, inquisitors' accounts of heretic speech, and life writing by William Thorpe and Margery Kempe. Medieval and contemporary pragmatic theory are contrasted in terms of their philosophical and linguistic orientations. Aspects of medieval pragmatic theory and practice, especially polysemy, equivocation, affective speech, and recontextualization, show how pragmatic discourse informed social controversies and attitudes toward sincere, vague, and heretical speech. Relying on Bakhtinian dialogism, critical discourse analysis, and conversation analysis, Amsler situates a key period in the history of linguistics within broader social and discursive fields of practice. 410 0$aKnowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;$v10. 606 $aLinguistics$xHistory$yTo 1500 610 $a(History of) Pragmatics, Medieval linguistics, Literary pragmatics, Religious and social dissent. 615 0$aLinguistics$xHistory 676 $a410.9 700 $aAmsler$b Mark$f1949-$0172605 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828066203321 996 $aThe medieval life of language$93941512 997 $aUNINA