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Historical dialogue analysis

Historical dialogue analysis is a new branch of historical pragmatics. The papers of this interdisciplinary volume contribute to charting the developing field by presenting a survey of recent research from the different traditions of English, German and Romance language studies. Both the introductory paper by the editors and the individual papers deal with fundamental theoretical questions, e.g. the question of types of historical developments in dialogue forms, and methodological problems, e.g. the finding and interpretation of relevant data. The fifteen case studies presented in th
eBook, English, ©1999
J. Benjamins Pub. Co., Amsterdam, ©1999
Pragmatics & beyond, new ser. 66
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1 online resource (viii, 478 pages) : illustrations
9789027283795, 9027283796
742367066
1. Preface; 2. Historical Dialogue Analysis: Roots and Traditions in the Study of the Romance Languages, German and English (by Jucker, Andreas H.); 3. Ritual Levelling: The Balance between the Eristic and the Contractual Motive in Hostile verbal Encounters in Medieval Romance and Early Modern Drama (by Bax, Marcel); 4. The Pragmatic Form of Religious Controversies around 1600: A Case Study in the Osiander vs. Schrerer & Rosenbusch Controversy; 5. The Use of Dialogue in Early German Pamphlets: On the Constitution of Public Involvement in the Reuchlin-Pfefferkorn Controversy (by Schwitalla, Johannes); 6. The Polite Answer in Pre-modern German Conversation Culture (by Beetz, Manfred); 7. Minnegesprache: Die galante Konversation in der Fruhen deutschen Lyrik (by Kastner, Hannes); 8. On the Fringes of Interaction: The Dawn-Song as a "Linguistic Routine" of Parting (by Honegger, Thomas); 9. Refugiate in a strange countrey: Learning English through Dialogues in the 16th Century (by Watts, Richard J.); 10. Dialogues in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Medical Writing (by Taavitsainen, Irma); 11. A Late Medieval French Bargain Dialogue (Pathelin II), Or: Further Remarks on the History of Dialogue Forms (by Lebsanft, Franz); 12. Modifying Pragmatic Force: Hedges in Early Modern English Dialogues (by Culpeper, Jonathan); 13. So he says to her, he says, "Well", he says...: Multiple Dialogue Introducers from a Historical Perspective (by Herlyn, Anne); 14. Que fais, Adam?: Questions and Seduction in the Jeu d'Adam (by Schrott, Angela); 15. Dialoge im Rechtsprotokoll: Ein Wetzlarer Erbstreit a. 1309 und die Entstehung einer neuen Textsorte (by Ramge, Hans); 16. Court Records and Cartoons: Reflections of Spontaneous Dialogue in Early Romance Texts (by Koch, Peter); 17. Dialogue and Violence: The Inca Atahualpa meets Fray Vicente de Valverde (Cajamarca, Peru 16 November, 1532) (by Oesterreicher, Wulf); 18. Index