The Medieval Life of Language : : Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe / / Mark Amsler.
The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe explores the complex history of medieval pragmatic theory and ideas and metapragmatic awareness across social discourses. Pragmatic thinking about language and communication are revealed in grammar, semiotics, philosophy, and...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Knowledge Communities ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Where is Medieval Pragmatics?
- 1 Medieval Pragmatics: Philosophical and Grammatical Contexts
- 2 Interjections: Does Affect have Grammar?
- 3 Allas Context
- 4 Alisoun’s Giggle, or the Miller Does Pragmatics
- 5 How Heretics Talk, According to Bernard Gui and William Thorpe
- 6 Margery Kempe’s Strategic Vague Language
- One More Thing
- Bibliography
- Index