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English:English:Part IPart I

Historical pragmaticsJanuary 26, 2006Andreas H. Jucker

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Definitions

Pragmatics studies the use of language in human communication as determined by the conditions of society. (Mey 2001: 6)

Historical pragmatics can be defined as the study of historical data from a pragmatic perspective, the diachronic study of pragmatic elements or the study of study of language change from a pragmatic perspectives. (Jucker 2000: 90)

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Subfields

Pragmaphilology•Historical texts studied from a pragmatic perspective

Diachronic pragmatics– Form-to-function mapping

•A linguistic form: How does its function change?

– Function-to-form mapping•A linguistic function: How is it realized in the course of time?

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“Bad data”

Historical pragmatics and, in a wider sense, historical sociolinguistics need access to spoken texts, preferably items of spontaneously spoken language of earlier periods; these are, however, no longer available. This plight has recently been referred to as the problem of “bad data”. (Fries 1998: 85)

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Data in historical pragmatics

Genuinelywritten

Represen- tation of spoken

dialogic

monologic

retrospectivefictional

prospective

letters, pamphlets

books, poems

reports, protocolsin poetry, in narrativesin academic textsdramain conversation manualsin language textbooks

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Corpus of Dialogue

Recorded Re-con-structed

Constructed

Minimum ofnarratorialintervention

trial proceed-ings; meetingrecords;parliamentaryjournals

biographies;histories

drama;handbooks indialogue form

Narratorialintervention

witnessdepositions;witnessaccounts

biographies;histories

prose fiction;prose drama

(Culpeper & Kytö 2000)

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Communicative immediacy versus

distance

Communi-cativeimmediacy

Communi-cativedistance

written codespoken code

Intimate conversation

Radio interview

Job interview

Lecture

Legal contractAcademic paper

Private letter

Email

(Based on Koch and Oesterreicher 1985; Koch 1999)

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Research agenda forhistorical pragmatics

Speech acts Patterns of social interaction Pragmatic factors in language change

Discourse organisation Discourse types Patterns of the dissemination of knowledge and information

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St. Peter’s Church at Monkwearmouth, Jarrow

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Whitby Abbey

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Christianization

Christianization of the Celtic inhabitants during Roman rule

Christianization of Anglo-Saxons from Rome and from the Irish-Scottish monastery of Iona

597 St Augustine sent by Pope Gregory C 700 all of Anglo-Saxon England was Christian

C 800 Danish attacks on monasteries Late 10th century: Benedictine Reform

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Christianization Christianization of the Celtic inhabitants during Roman rule

Christianization of Anglo-Saxons from Rome and from the Irish-Scottish monastery of Iona

597 St Augustine sent by Pope Gregory 657 Abbess Hild at Whitby Abbey (Cædmon) C 700 all of Anglo-Saxon England was Christian

731 Bede‘s Latin Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum written at Monkwearmouth-Jarrow

C 800 Danish attacks on monasteries King Alfred‘s reign (871-99) Historia translated

Late 10th century: Benedictine Reform

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Anglo-Saxon Dialects

Northumbria

MerciaEast Anglia

Essex

Kent

SussexWessex

NorthumbrianMercian

Kentish

Westsaxon

Cf.Baugh & Cable 1978: 53

Jarrow

Whitby