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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... polysemy or vagueness of the lexemes with which we refer to text classes . There are at least two kinds of foreword : one is written by the author of the book , the other by someone else . The latter belongs to a " notional or deep ...
... polysemous . Polysemy or vague- ness is a necessary condition for semantic change , a fact which Görlach illustrates , above all , with recipe ( ch . 4 ) and advertisement ( ch . 5 ) . In recent years he has extended his approach to a ...
... polysemous items separately . ) I have therefore decided , with some qualms , to start from more or less encyclopedic distinctions , which have been impressionistically postulated in the hope that they will turn out to reflect semantic ...
... polysemous ( as defined by the shared archiseme ) or as homonymous - which would then argue for the existence of more than one field . It is also possible that some components may function as field- establishing archisemes - which would ...
... polysemous so that their senses appear to merit , and possibly need , sepa- rate descriptions , such as address ... polysemy is indicated by the fact that such terms tend to be derivations from verbs on -nes or -ung in OE , and -ing and ...
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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 |