Reanimated voices : speech reporting in a historical-pragmatic perspective / Daniel E. Collins.

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Collins, Daniel E

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789027298133
9027298130
1282162470
9781282162471
9786612162473
6612162473

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reanimated voices.DDC classification:

415 21

LOC classification:

P301.5.I53 C65 2001eb

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Contents:

REANIMATED VOICES; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; The pragmatics of reported speech; The text-kind: A pragmaphilological overview; Testimony; Residual forms in testimony; The question framework; Reporting from judicial-referral hearings; Layered reports; Reporting the verdict; Conclusions; Notes; References; Appendix: Text-kind and date of the investigated trial transcripts; Name index; Subject index; PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Summary: Reanimated Voices addresses three activities: reporters evoking speech events; interpreters (re)constituting those speech events; and historical pragmaticians eavesdropping in time on the reporters and interpreters. Can one reconstruct aspects of pragmatic competence on the basis of written texts only? Reanimated Voices answers this in the affirmative. It offers a methodology for historical-pragmatic reconstruction to explain the synchronic patterns of variation in premodern writings. Reanimated Voices examines the distribution of reporting strategies in a corpus of medieval Russian texts. For.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-342) and indexes.

Reanimated Voices addresses three activities: reporters evoking speech events; interpreters (re)constituting those speech events; and historical pragmaticians eavesdropping in time on the reporters and interpreters. Can one reconstruct aspects of pragmatic competence on the basis of written texts only? Reanimated Voices answers this in the affirmative. It offers a methodology for historical-pragmatic reconstruction to explain the synchronic patterns of variation in premodern writings. Reanimated Voices examines the distribution of reporting strategies in a corpus of medieval Russian texts. For.