11.978, TOC: Journal of Historical Pragmatics

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Date:  Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:04:16 -0400
From:  Paul Peranteau <paul at benjamins.com>
Subject:  NEW! Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Volume 1:1 (2000)

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Date:  Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:04:16 -0400
From:  Paul Peranteau <paul at benjamins.com>
Subject:  NEW! Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Volume 1:1 (2000)

This is the table of contents and abstracts from Volume 1, No. 1
(2000) of the new journal.

JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL PRAGMATICS
Edited by Andreas Jucker (Justus Liebig University) and Irma Taavitsainen
(University of Helsinki)
published by John Benjamins Publishing

Articles
Susan M. Fitzmaurice (pp. 1-6)
Some remarks on the rhetoric of historical pragmatics

Scott A. Schwenter and Elizabeth Closs Traugott (pp. 7-25)
Invoking scalarity: The development of in fact

Noriko O. Onodera (pp. 27-55)
Development of demo type connectives and na elements: Two extremes of
Japanese discourse markers

Marcella Bertuccelli Papi (pp. 57-66)
Is a diachronic speech act theory possible?

Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen (pp. 67-95)
Diachronic speech act analysis: Insults from flyting to flaming

Jonathan Culpeper and Elena Semino (pp. 97-116)
Constructing witches and spells: Speech acts and activity types in Early
Modern England

Thomas Honegger (pp. 117-150)
'But-þat þou louye me, Sertes y dye fore loue of þe': Towards a
typology of opening moves in Courtly Amorous Interaction

Book Reviews
Gerd Fritz: Historische Semantik (Brigitte Nerlich)

Forthcoming Papers

Authors in this Issue

ABSTRACTS:

Invoking scalarity: The development of in fact
Scott A. Schwenter and Elizabeth Closs Traugott

The discourse contexts are analyzed in which clause-internal in fact
developed pragmaticalized meanings and came to invoke scalarity in two
domains: epistemic sentence adverb (IPAdv), and additive discourse
marker (DM). In both these uses, in fact tightens word to world fit
(Powell 1992): the world of epistemic belief in the case of the IPAdv,
the world of evaluative, rhetorical perspective in the case of the
DM. The analysis therefore provides further evidence for (i) pragmatic
ambiguities across these worlds (Sweetser 1990), (ii) subjectification
that shifts perspectives from interpersonal (adversative) to personal
evaluation (Traugott 1989), (iii) the pragmatic relationship between
scalarity, adversativity and additivity (Schwenter 1999). The
different orientations of the two uses suggest they are polysemous,
not contextually bound.

Development of demo type connectives and na elements: Two extremes of
Japanese discourse markers
Noriko O. Onodera

This paper suggests the independence of grammaticalization and
pragmaticalization processes. These two processes are originally and
self-evidently autonomous evolutionary paths that occur independently
of each other. However, grammaticalization is often discussed, indeed
in the majority of the recent studies, in correlation to some
unidirectional features that co-occur with grammaticalization. Such
features include, structurally, for example, "bondedness" and
"structural scope" (Lehmann 1995), and functionally, for example,
"increase in abstraction" and "pragmaticalization". These
unidirectional features are at times even considered too
authoritatively criterial to judge a given language change as an
instance of grammaticalization.This study illustrates a piece of
evidence for the asymmetric relationship of grammaticalization and
pragmaticalization. That is, the two groups of Japanese discourse
markers -- (1) demo type connectives and (2) na elements -- experience
quite different historical changes. The group (1) undergoes both
grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, but the group (2) undergoes
pragmaticalization without involving grammaticalization.

Diachronic speech act analysis: Insults from flyting to flaming
Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen

In this paper we want to develop a model for the diachronic analysis
of speech acts by tracing one particular speech act through the
history of English, viz. insults. Speech acts are fuzzy concepts which
show both diachronic and synchronic variation. We therefore propose a
notion of a multidimensional pragmatic space in which speech acts can
be analyzed in relation to neighboring speech acts.Against this
background we discuss both the changing cultural grounding in which
insults occur and the changing ways in which they are realized. Our
data is drawn from the Old English poem Beowulf and the Finnsburh
fragment, from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and from Shakespeare's
plays, and from a variety of non-literary sources such as personal
letters, court records and an internet discussion group.  The scale
ranges from everyday communication to ritualized behavior. When
written materials of the past periods are analyzed, the bias towards
the conventionalized insults is evident. Most early examples are found
in literary texts and seem to reflect generic conventions of the time
and the culture that gave rise to these literary forms.

Constructing witches and spells: Speech acts and activity types in Early
Modern England
Jonathan Culpeper and Elena Semino

In this paper, we highlight the centrality of verbs relating to verbal
activities in witchcraft narratives in the Early Modern English
period, and focus on speech act verbs used to refer to witches'
curses. In the first part, we refer to various classifications of
speech act verbs and to Searle's felicity conditions for speech acts,
in order to describe the different meanings of verbs such as to curse,
and to show how their central meaning has shifted over time. In the
second part, we show how the speech act verbs form a structured set,
which -- in appropriate circumstances -- could be used as an
interpretative frame to create witchcraft events out of relatively
trivial arguments within village communities. Here, we refer to
Levinson's notion of activity types as a possible explanatory
framework.

'But-þat þou louye me, Sertes y dye fore loue of þe': Towards a
typology of opening moves in Courtly Amorous Interaction
Thomas Honegger

In this paper, I look at how medieval and early modern poets present
and exploit the potential inherent in opening moves in (love)
relationships for the purpose of plot motivation and protagonist
characterisation. The depiction of the opening moves depends on three
interrelated pairs of variables: 1) legalistic tradition (marriage as
the reason for initiating a relationship) vs emotional tradition
(focus is on the beloved person's affection), 2) plot motivation vs
protagonist characterisation, and 3) brevity vs length. Longer texts
that focus on the lovers' feelings and that pay some attention to
protagonist characterisation are more likely to feature relatively
complex linguistic strategies presented in a basically realistic
interactional manner. In shorter texts of the emotional tradition, the
complexity is reduced, and poets working in the legalistic tradition
often pay hardly any attention at all to the finer points of opening
moves in love interaction.

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