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

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.45
• Soggetto topico: Pragmatics; English language - Discourse analysis; Metalanguage; Historical linguistics
• Altri autori: BusseUlrich HüblerAxel
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Investigations into the meta-communicative lexicon of English
• ISBN: 1-280-38038-1; 9786613558299; 90-272-7461-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816816003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pragmatics & beyond ; ; new ser., 220.