Syntagmatic conformity: Blessings and curses in Winthrop’s Christian Charitie

IF 0.6 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language and Literature Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI:10.1177/09639470221090378

C. Vergaro

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Abstract

Despite all the attention Puritan sermons have received, no attention has been specifically devoted to the analysis of the two speech acts of blessing and cursing in these sermons from a cognitive-pragmatic point of view. This study aims at doing this, focussing on Winthrop’s A Modell of Christian Charity as a case study. I use the framework provided by the Entrenchment and Conventionalization Model – a usage-based and emergentist model of language knowledge and convention – and analyse how the syntagmatic association of the two speech acts contributes to the conformity profile of the sermon. Moreover, I argue that this linguistic lens can add to the understanding of the ‘enargetic’ rhetoric of the text.

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句法整合：温斯罗普基督教慈善中的祝福与诅咒

尽管清教徒的布道受到了所有的关注，但没有人专门从认知语用的角度来分析这些布道中的祝福和诅咒这两种言语行为。本研究以温斯罗普的《基督教慈善模式》为个案研究。我使用了根深蒂固和惯例化模型提供的框架——一个基于使用的语言知识和惯例的新兴模型——并分析了两种言语行为的组合联想如何有助于布道的一致性。此外，我认为这种语言学视角可以增加对文本“目标”修辞的理解。

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