Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past

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Janne Skaffari Matti Peikola Ruth Carroll Risto Hiltunen Brita Wårvik(Editor)

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Published on 24. March 2005

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Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Note
A frame for windows
Notes
References
I. Discourse in the public sphere
News discourse
1. Introduction
2. Early English newspapers and periodicity
3. Mass circulation and the top-down principle
4. The modularisation of a continuous flood of news
5. The online stream of breaking news
6. Conclusion
Note
References
Advertising discourse in eighteenth-century English newspapers
1. Introduction
2. The sociolinguistic framework
2.1. The participants
2.2. The objects relevant to the communication
2.3. The medium of communication
2.4. The purpose of communication
3. The main features of the language of advertising
3.1. Attention value
3.2. Readability
3.3. Memorability
3.4. Selling power
4. Awareness of the linguistic features of advertisements
5. Conclusions
Notes
Sources
References
Presidential inaugural addresses
1. Introduction
2. Setting IAs into a context
3. Participants in the inaugural ceremony
4. Linguistics factors
4.1. Quotations and borrowings
4.2. Increasing orality
4.3. Personal pronouns
5. Conclusion
References
Freedom of speech at stake
1. Introduction
2. Background on freedom of speech
3. The framework of informal fallacies
4. Applying the concept of an informal fallacy
5. Arguing for the Sedition Act of 1798
6. John Allen's speech in the debate of July 5, 1798
7. Summing up
Note
References
Text-initiating strategies in eighteenth-century newspaper headlines
1. Introduction
2. Method and corpus
3. Verbal headlines
4. Syntactic combinations
5. Stylistic dimensions
5.1. Unstressed forms
5.2. Topicalised forms
5.3. Dislocated forms
6. Conclusion
Note
References
II. Science and academia
Patterns of agentivity and narrativity in early science discourse
1. Introduction
2. Narrativity and science texts
2.1. Agents and events in early and modern science texts
2.2. Narrative form and narrative function
3. Linguistic reflections of the de-narrativisation of science texts
3.1. Data
3.2. Pronoun usage reflecting narrativity and argument in early science discourse
3.3. Agentivity within changing patterns of discourse organisation
4. Summary
Notes
References
The economics academic lecture in the nineteenth century
1. Introduction
2. Data and methodology
3. Interpersonal and evaluative devices
3.1. Participants' voices in the text
3.2. Questioning and quoting
3.3. Evaluative metadiscursive devices
4. Concluding observations
Note
References
Contesting authorities
1. Introduction
1.1. John Wilkins (1614-1672)
1.2. Discovery
2. Citation analysis
3. Quantitative analysis
3.1. Distribution of intertextual references
4. Qualitative analysis
4.1. Comments on the Bible
4.2. Classics
4.3. Contemporary
5. Conclusion
References
Personal pronouns in argumentation
1. Introduction
2. Aim and method
3. Analysis
3.1. The multifunctional I
3.2. The authorial I
3.3. You - addressing the reader
3.4. You - attacking the opponent and addressing the audience
3.5. The exophoric third person
3.6. The endophoric third person
3.7. The persuasive we
3.8. Who we are
3.9. Us vs. them
3.10. They as a cohesive link
4. Conclusion
Notes
Sources
References
Criticism under scrutiny
1. Introduction
Part one
1. Criticism and knowledge
2. Knowledge and truth
3. Medicine and criticism
Part two
4. Overt rhetorical features of early criticism (1810-1929)
4.1. Overt arrogation of responsibility
4.2. Polemicity (oppositional discourse)
4.3. Involved production, the rhetoric of immediate experience and magister dixit medicine
5. Overall rhetorical features of late criticism (1930-1995)
5.1. Greater hedginess of Anglo-Saxon criticism
5.2. The politics of civility and publication of scientific style manuals in the Anglo-Saxon world
5.3. Marketisation and competition within Anglo-Saxon scientific circles
5.4. Anglo-Saxon hypermodesty vs. French self-confidence: historically and culturally-entrenched traditions
5.5. The particular case of Spanish medical discourse: an example of academic acculturation
6. Conclusions
Notes
References
Appendix
19th and early 20th century medical journals
Mid- and late 20th century medical journals
The underlying pattern of the Renaissance botanical genre pinax
1. Introduction
2. Gesner's Pinax Phyton (1542)
2.1. Epistémè during the years 1520-1560
2.2. The principles of discourse organisation
3. Caspar Bauhin's Pinax (1596, 1623)
3.1. Epistémè during the years 1560-1620
3.2. The principles of discourse organisation
4. Conclusion
Notes
References
Genres and the appropriation of science
1. Aim and plan of the study
2. Appropriation of scientific knowledge
3. Dissemination of scientific knowledge
3.1. Anchorage points from learned to popular
3.2. Loci communes
3.3. Method of search for loci communes
4. Genres and the reception of texts
4.1. Late medieval and early modern scientific writing
4.2. Commentaries and compilationes in English
4.3. Encyclopaedic knowledge: De proprietatibus rerum
4.4. Commonplace books
4.5. Textbooks: The Guild-Book of the Barber-Surgeons of York
4.6. Scientific knowledge in verse: Sidrak and Bokkus
4.7. Early modern popular science: Handbooks and collections of questions and answers
5. The scale from learned to popular: Distinguishing features
Notes
References
III. Letters and literature
Chaucer's narrators and audiences
1. Introduction
2. The universal persona: Chaucer's narrators
3. Towards an art of bumbling: The Book of the Duchess
4. The clerk leaves the garden: The House of Fame
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
Discourse on a par with syntax, or the effects of the linguistic organisation of letters on the diachronic characterisation of the text type
1. Introduction
2. The genre of `letters'
3. The corpus
4. The organisation of the sentence
4.1. Repertoire of organisational variants
4.2. Subjects
5. Referentiality in discourse
5.1. A typology of referentiality
5.2. A corpus-based analysis of referentiality
6. Length
7. Concluding remarks
Notes
Sources
References
Verba sic spernit mea
1. Introduction
2. Senecan drama and its context
2.1. Ancient drama
2.2. Senecan drama
3. Coherence and rupture of coherence
3.1. Coherence and relevance
3.2. Coherence by association or coreference
3.3. Coherence by fulfilment of perlocution
3.4. Coherence and its rupture in drama
4. Seneca's usage of rupture of coherence
4.1. Mentally induced and paradox rupture of coherence
4.2. Deliberate rupture of coherence
4.3. Anticommunicative rupture of coherence
5. Conclusions
Notes
Sources
References
IV. Discourse and pragmatics
`Ther been thinges thre, the whiche thynges troublen al this erthe'
1. Introduction
2. Origin and structural development of the WPNC
3. Structure(s) of the WPNC
4. Function(s) of WPNCs
5. Summary and conclusion
Data appendix
Notes
Sources
References
Processes underlying the development of pragmatic markers
1. Introduction
2. Definitions of grammaticalisation, pragmaticalisation, lexicalisation, idiomaticisation
2.1. Grammaticalisation
2.2. Pragmaticalisation
2.3. Lexicalisation
2.4. Idiomaticisation
3. The pragmatic marker (I) say
3.1. (I) say in Modern English
3.2. Historical development of (I) say
3.3. Accounting for the development of (I) say
4. Conclusion
Notes
Electronic and online sources
References
From certainty to doubt
1. Introduction
2. The evolution of confirmative voire 1 in dialogue: From certainty to doubt
3. Intra-sentential assertive voire 1 in Old and Middle French
4. Voire 2: From Classical to Modern French
5. Conclusion
Notes
Sources
References
Politeness as a distancing device in the passive and in indefinite pronouns
1. Introduction
2. Politeness
2.1. Categorising types of politeness
3. Impersonalisation as a distancing device in the passive and in indefinite pronouns
3.1. Passive
3.2. Indefinite pronouns
4. Diachronic changes in the relationship between the passive and indefinite pronouns
5. Conclusion
Notes
Sources
References
V. Language contact and discourse
Discourse features of code-switching in legal reports in late medieval England
1. Introduction
2. Year Books
3. Mixed-language proficiency as in-group communication
4. Conclusion
Notes
References
Focusing strategies in Old French and Old Irish
1. Focus and the cleft construction in a pragmatic perspective
2. Focus marking and the cleft construction in a typological perspective
3. Focus marking and the cleft construction in a historical perspective
3.1. Old Irish
3.2. Cleft in Gaulish?
3.3. Latin
3.4. Old French
4. Conclusion
Notes
Sources
References
Medieval mixed-language business discourse and the rise of Standard English
1. Introduction
2. The discourse of medieval business writing in Britain
2.1. Etymological analysis
2.2. Affixes
2.3. Concord
2.4. English Anglo-Norman word-formation
2.5. The dinner menu
3. Early Standard English
4. Patterns of trade contact
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
Manuscripts
Printed works
Author index
Subject index
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