Text Types and the History of EnglishWalter de Gruyter, 22. 8. 2008 - Počet stran: 347 The history of modern European languages has been largely determined by the range of functions they have acquired, particularly after 1500. This development necessitated a notable expansion of their syntax and lexis, but is most characteristically reflected in the conventionalization of text types. Starting from the German concept of Textsorte as developed from the 1960s onwards, the present account is a first comprehensive attempt at charting the field for the history and present-day situation of the English language. In text types, a designation is linked with a more or less stable form which guides the writer’s production as well as the reader's expectation, permitting one to recognize straightforward uses as well as deliberate misuses. Some two thousand of such designations are here listed with minimal definitions and dates for first occurrences. The discussion then concentrates on selected types, which are seen as especially illustrative for English: book dedications, cooking recipes, advertisements, church hymns, lexical entries, and jokes. Their functions and development over time are treated in correlation with their specific linguistic characteristics and adaptations to different period styles and social changes in the readership. The functional range of text types in traditions outside England and the consequences of the export of English categories are exemplified by the history of Scots/Scottish English and of English in India. The arguments are accompanied by a lavish supply of textual excerpts and more than fifty pages of facsimiles, which are especially relevant for insights derived from typographical features. A full bibliography and indices are provided at the end. The book will prove useful for decisions on the constitution of representative text corpora and stimulate research into a greater number of individual text types as well as contrastive analyses at least among European languages. |
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... .. Facsimiles Bibliography Indices 250 253 309 Index of persons . 323 Index of topics , terms , places and anonymous works . Index of words and phrases . 326 331 List of figures Fig . 1 : The functional distribution viii Contents.
... person . This fact alone should make them ideal for a study of the nexus between form and function which is the basic Erkenntnisinteresse of all linguistic research . But since these genres represent non - expository , non - narrative ...
... persons ' addresses L19 adjudication ORDER ORDER declaring bankruptcy M19 adjuration earnest APPEAL , esp . in exorcism ... person accused that he was elsewhere L18 allegation † 2 excuse , PLEA LME - E17 , * formal averment , unsupported ...
... person's memorable SAYINGS M18 anacreontic erotic POEM M17 anagoge * literary interpretation , exegesis M19 analects literary gleanings M17 analysis II critical examination of literary COMPOSITION L16 anathema FORMULA of consigning to ...
... a BOOK L20 audit † 2 STATEMENT of ACCOUNT , balance sheet LME - M17 audition 3 trial hearing for employment L19 autobiography STORY of a person's life L18 autograph BOOK / An alphabetical list of English text types 27.
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63 The hymn as a text type | 167 |
7 Lexical entries | 175 |
72 Entries in monolingual dictionaries of modern English | 176 |
8 Linguistic aspects of jokes | 181 |
82 Types of jokes | 188 |
83 Conclusion | 199 |
9 Text types and the history of Scots | 201 |
92 Formal texts | 204 |
28 A list of Old English text types | 91 |
3 Text types and the linguistic history of modern English | 99 |
32 The concept of text types | 102 |
the dedicatory epistle | 109 |
factors conditioning the form of dedications | 112 |
35 Linguistic features characteristic of dedications | 115 |
36 Conclusion | 119 |
the cooking recipe | 121 |
42 The cooking recipe | 123 |
43 The development after 1500 | 131 |
44 Crosscultural comparisons | 136 |
45 Conclusions | 140 |
5 A linguistic history of advertising | 141 |
the 18th century | 151 |
53 The 19th century | 155 |
54 Changes in advertising style | 156 |
55 A text type exported | 161 |
56 Conclusion | 162 |
6 The church hymn | 163 |
62 The historical foundations of the text type | 164 |
93 Informal language | 211 |
94 Literary texts | 216 |
95 Conclusion | 220 |
10 Text types and Indian English | 225 |
102 Newspaper reports and leaders | 228 |
103 Book announcements and reviews | 230 |
104 Dedications forewords and endpieces in scholarly books | 231 |
105 Scholarly expository prose | 232 |
106 Advertisements of various types | 233 |
107 Obituaries | 237 |
108 Letters and essays | 239 |
109 Cooking recipes | 244 |
1010 The language of literature | 245 |
1011 Conclusion | 250 |
Facsimiles | 253 |
Bibliography | 309 |
Index of persons | 323 |
Index of topics terms places and anonymous works | 326 |
Index of words and phrases | 331 |