{"title":"Conceptualisations of xoshbaxti (‘happiness / prosperity’) and baxt (‘fate / luck’) in Persian","authors":"F. Sharifian, M. Bagheri","doi":"10.1075/JHP.16006.SHA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JHP.16006.SHA","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper explores conceptualisations of xoshbaxti (‘happiness / prosperity’) and baxt (‘fate / luck’) in Persian, adopting a combined historical and contemporary analysis. The expression xoshbaxti consists of the free morphemes xosh (‘pleasant’) and baxt (‘fate’).\u0000The root of baxt originates from the Proto-Indo-European language (bʰeh₂g). An historical analysis returning all the way to the Proto-Indo-Iranian religion shows that the concept of baxt captured the idea of a pre-determined destiny by conceptualising Bhaga as a god who dispenses fortune. Data from a number of Persian encyclopaedias, dictionaries and weblogs, as well as a word association task carried out by a group of speakers of Persian, revealed that xoshbaxti in contemporary Persian is largely associated with what is considered to be a “good” married life. Overall, the findings of this study illustrate the usefulness of combining diachronic and synchronic approaches when analysing cultural conceptualisations. The study also shows that attempts to trace the historical roots of cultural conceptualisations may benefit from insights gained in other fields, such as the history of religions. In this context, the multidisciplinary nature of the newly developed field of Cultural Linguistics provides an effective basis for cross-disciplinary openness, which has the potential to deepen the scope of analyses undertaken.","PeriodicalId":54081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Pragmatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47510980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A corpus-based study of composite predicates in Early Modern English dialogues","authors":"Ying Wang","doi":"10.1075/JHP.16011.WAN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JHP.16011.WAN","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Composite predicates (CPs), that is, complex predicate structures comprising a light verb and an eventive noun\u0000 (e.g., make a move or give a speech) are common in Present-day English and are particularly\u0000 characteristic of spoken language. The aim of the paper is to trace language changes involving CPs from 1560 to 1760, a period in\u0000 which the use of CPs has not yet received adequate scholarly attention. Specifically, the study examines the frequencies, lexical\u0000 productivity and syntactic patterns of CPs in two types of Early Modern English (EModE) dialogues, drawn from Trial Proceedings and Drama\u0000 Comedy sampled in A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 – a 1.2-million word computerized corpus of EModE\u0000 speech-related texts. The results reveal significant differences between the two types of dialogue and shed light on the\u0000 development of CPs in association with grammaticalization and lexicalization.","PeriodicalId":54081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Pragmatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42452348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doing Power Threatening Acts (PTAs) in ancient China","authors":"Xingchen Shen, Xinren Chen","doi":"10.1075/JHP.17002.SHE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JHP.17002.SHE","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study examines an unexplored type of speech act named jian, which took place uniquely in the\u0000 context of ancient China. Taking it as a Power Threatening Act rather than a commonly studied Face Threatening Act, this study\u0000 examined remonstrators’ strategic modulation of their jian, and the factors that might have influenced the choice\u0000 of modulation strategies. The data come from Zizhi Tongjian. The major findings are as follows: first, the speech\u0000 act of jian contained both ritualised and non-ritualised aspects; second, remonstrators would adopt different\u0000 modulation strategies when performing jian, which can be generally divided into three modulation orientations of\u0000 redress, aggravation, and a combination of redress and aggravation, with different degrees of rituality; third, the choices of\u0000 modulation strategies reflected the game playing of the requirements of affiliational propriety and illocutionary effect within\u0000 the jian act.","PeriodicalId":54081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Pragmatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49503767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"James Daybell and Andrew Gordon (eds). 2016. Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690","authors":"Helen Newsome","doi":"10.1075/JHP.00025.NEW","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JHP.00025.NEW","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 978-1-47-247826-9","PeriodicalId":54081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Pragmatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2019-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44132405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Heav’n bess you, my Dear”","authors":"Linnéa Anglemark","doi":"10.1075/JHP.00018.ANG","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JHP.00018.ANG","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The English and Swedish Drama Dialogue (ESDD) corpus is a sociopragmatically tagged corpus of\u0000 English and Swedish drama texts from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using this corpus, I investigated the use\u0000 of the address terms Fool, Dear, Sir and Brother. The study focused on the contexts where these\u0000 terms were found and traced diachronic usage patterns. The main questions asked in the investigation concerned, first, the\u0000 speaker’s attitude towards the addressees when using the address phrases and whether attitudes connected with particular phrases\u0000 changed over time; second, whether the phrases could be said to signal intimacy or distance between the interlocutors.","PeriodicalId":54081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Pragmatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/JHP.00018.ANG","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47988878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond speech representation","authors":"P. Grund","doi":"10.1075/JHP.00022.GRU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JHP.00022.GRU","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article is concerned with “speech descriptors”, markers that describe or evaluate the nature of represented\u0000 speech, such as very modestly in “The Gentlewoman very modestly bade him welcome” (CED, D2FKIT). The form,\u0000 frequency and function of such features are charted in Early Modern English prose fiction, drawn from A Corpus of English\u0000 Dialogues 1560–1760, and the results are compared to those of Grund\u0000 (2017a), which considers speech descriptors in contemporaneous witness depositions. The comparison reveals generic\u0000 differences and points to the importance of studying speech descriptors for our understanding of the dynamics of speech\u0000 representation in the history of English.","PeriodicalId":54081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Pragmatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/JHP.00022.GRU","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44438378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lexical bundles from one century to the next","authors":"Rachel Allan","doi":"10.1075/JHP.00017.ALL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JHP.00017.ALL","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This corpus study compares lexical bundles found in the language input of a selection of historical and current\u0000 English language teaching materials to see what insights they can give into changes in spoken language use. English teaching texts\u0000 published between 1905 and 1917 were used to construct a historical corpus, and a collection of English language self-study texts\u0000 published between 2004 and 2014 were used for comparison. Both groups of texts focused on spoken language. The most frequent\u0000 three-word lexical bundles extracted from each corpus varied considerably. The contemporary texts showed both a greater use of\u0000 formulaic language and more syntactic complexity within it, while the historical texts relied on simpler structures. An\u0000 exploratory analysis of the lexical bundles in the historical texts suggests, however, that viewed in conjunction with other\u0000 historical sources, they can assist in building a picture of spoken language use of the period.","PeriodicalId":54081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Pragmatics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/JHP.00017.ALL","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41379450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ere and before in English historical corpora, with special reference to the\u0000 Corpus of English Dialogues","authors":"M. Rissanen","doi":"10.1075/JHP.00023.RIS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JHP.00023.RIS","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this paper, the use of two roughly synonymous temporal adverbial links, ere and\u0000 before, will be discussed. The survey will cover the history of English, from Old to Present-day English. It\u0000 is based on historical corpora, particularly on the Corpus of English Dialogues (1560–1760). Ere\u0000 (Old English ær) was originally temporal, while before (Old English beforan)\u0000 goes back to the spatial form. In Old English and Early Middle English ere is clearly more common than\u0000 before; from Late Middle English on, before becomes the more favoured link. The\u0000 Corpus of English Dialogues and later corpora indicate that the use of ere is remarkably\u0000 restricted to informal and speech-related discourse.","PeriodicalId":54081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Pragmatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/JHP.00023.RIS","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45043903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}