The Medieval Life of Language Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe

The 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 is revealed in grammar, semiotics, philosophy, and l...

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Main Author: Amsler, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Netherlands Amsterdam University Press 28.06.2021
Series:Knowledge Communities
Subjects:
General history of Europe
Medieval Studies
Grammar, syntax & morphology
High Middle Ages
South
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
Early Modern Studies
Language Studies
Grammar, syntax and morphology
History, Art History, and Archaeology
AUP Wetenschappelijk
Pragmatics
Early history: c. 500 to c. 1450
Medieval
CE period up to c 1500
1500
Language
Philosophy of language
PHILOSOPHY
Linguistics
(History of) Pragmatics, Medieval linguistics, Literary pragmatics, Religious and social dissent
History & Archaeology
Philosophy and Ethics
Language and Linguistics
HISTORY
ISBN:9463721924, 9789463721929, 9048550165, 9789048550166
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Summary:The 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 is 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.
ISBN:9463721924
9789463721929
9048550165
9789048550166
DOI:10.5040/9789048563579