Daniela Landert

Methods in Historical Corpus Pragmatics (eBook, ePUB)

Epistemic Stance in Early Modern English

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009237383
• Artikelnr.: 70912446

Autorenporträt

Daniela Landert is Professor of English Linguistics at Heidelberg University. Her research interests include historical pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, the study of (spontaneous) spoken language, pragmatics of fiction, and modality. She is the author of Personalisation in Mass Media Communication (John Benjamins, 2014) and Editor of the Journal of Historical Pragmatics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
Part 1. Theoretical Background: 2. Historical corpus pragmatics
3. Stance in Early Modern English
Part II. Methodology: 4. Compiling inventories of lexical stance markers
5. Retrieving high-density passages
Part III. Empirical Studies: 6. Lexical stance markers in high-density passages
7. Contextual factors and rhetorical strategies
8. Meta-communicative expressions and stance: I say and I tell (you)
9. Expressing certainty in different genres
10. Conclusion
Data
Appendix A: List of high-density passages
Appendix B: Stance inventory.