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Abstract
This article is concerned with “speech descriptors”, markers that describe or evaluate the nature of represented
speech, such as very modestly in “The Gentlewoman very modestly bade him welcome” (CED, D2FKIT). The form,
frequency and function of such features are charted in Early Modern English prose fiction, drawn from A Corpus of English
Dialogues 1560–1760, and the results are compared to those of Grund
(2017a), which considers speech descriptors in contemporaneous witness depositions. The comparison reveals generic
differences and points to the importance of studying speech descriptors for our understanding of the dynamics of speech
representation in the history of English.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Historical Pragmatics provides an interdisciplinary forum for theoretical, empirical and methodological work at the intersection of pragmatics and historical linguistics. The editorial focus is on socio-historical and pragmatic aspects of historical texts in their sociocultural context of communication (e.g. conversational principles, politeness strategies, or speech acts) and on diachronic pragmatics as seen in linguistic processes such as grammaticalization or discoursization. Contributions draw on data from literary or non-literary sources and from any language. In addition to contributions with a strictly pragmatic or discourse analytical perspective, it also includes contributions with a more sociolinguistic or semantic approach.