did Earlier Speakers Of English Use The Same Speech Acts That We Use Today? Did They Use Them In The Same Way? How Did They Signal Speech Act Values And How Did They Negotiate Them In Case Of Uncertainty? These Are Some Of The Questions That Are Addressed In This Volume In Innovative Case Studies That Cover A Wide Range Of Speech Acts From Old English To Present-day English. All The Studies Offer Careful Discussions Of Methodological And Theoretical Issues As Well As Detailed Descriptions Of Specific Speech Acts. The First Part Of The Volume Is Devoted To Directives And Commissives, I.e. Speech Acts Such As Requests, Commands And Promises. The Second Part Is Devoted To Expressives And Assertives And Deals With Speech Acts Such As Greetings, Compliments And Apologies. The Third Part, Finally, Contains Technical Reports That Deal Primarily With The Problem Of Extracting Speech Acts From Historical Corpora.

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Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen

Taavitsainen, Irma; Jucker, Andreas H.

Benjamins Publishing Company, John

Pragmatics & beyond new series -- v. 176, Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Netherlands, 2008

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Speech Acts in the History of English......Page 2
Editorial page
......Page 3
Title page
......Page 4
LCC data
......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1. Introduction......Page 10
2. Previous research on the history of speech acts......Page 11
3.1 Language universals......Page 12
3.2 Context......Page 13
4. Pragmatic space......Page 15
5. Speech acts and politeness......Page 16
6. Research methods and research questions......Page 18
7. The papers in this volume......Page 19
References......Page 28
Directives and commissives......Page 34
1. Introduction......Page 36
2. Methodology and data......Page 37
3.1 Directive performatives......Page 39
Table 2. ge sculon-constructions in directives in the Old English section of the Helsinki Corpus.......Page 42
3.3 Constructions with uton......Page 44
Table 3. uton-constructions in directives in the Old English section of the Helsinki Corpus.......Page 45
4. Conclusions......Page 48
References......Page 51
1. Introduction......Page 54
2.1 Towards a definition of the speech act of request......Page 56
2.2 The structure of requests: A starting point......Page 57
2.2.2 Features of the head act......Page 58
3.1 (In)directness: Some theoretical background......Page 60
3.2 Classifying requests for (in)directness: A starting point......Page 64
4. Historical methodology: Problems, solutions and implications......Page 65
5. Our data and its sociopragmatic annotation......Page 69
Table 1. Frequencies of requests in the SPC......Page 71
Table 2. Frequencies of types of request in the SPC......Page 72
Figures 1 and 2. The distribution of conventional indirectness in the CCSARP project......Page 74
7. Specific strategies for conventional indirect requests and their distribution......Page 75
8. Impositive strategies and their context......Page 79
Table 3. Impositive strategies......Page 80
Table 4. The frequencies of support moves in impositive requests......Page 83
Table 5. The frequencies of types of support move in drama and trials......Page 84
9. Summary and discussion of major findings......Page 85
10. Concluding remarks......Page 87
References......Page 89
1. Introduction......Page 94
2.1 The Early Modern inventory of imperatives and related speech forms to express directives......Page 95
2.3 Directive speech acts and their illocutionary force......Page 97
2.4 The communicative functions and the manipulative strength of imperative clauses......Page 99
2.5 Indirect speech acts......Page 103
3. Shakespearean directives - methodological problems......Page 105
4.1.1 Scene 1 "The state division scene" (1.1.34-266)......Page 106
4.1.3 Act I, scene 4: "Lear and Goneril" (236-278)......Page 111
4.1.4 Summary......Page 112
4.2.1 Scene 4 "Lear and Regan" (88-119; 133-182; 188-271)......Page 113
4.3.1 Scene 2 "Storm on the Heath" (1-78)......Page 115
4.3.2 Act III, Scene 4 "Storm still" (1-28; 170-180)......Page 116
4.4.1 Scene 6 "Lear [still mad] and Gloucester" (130-180)......Page 117
4.4.2 Act IV, Scene 7 "Lear and Cordelia" (25-83)......Page 118
4.5.1 Scene 3 "Lear and Cordelia" (8-11; 306-12)......Page 119
5. Summary and conclusion......Page 120
References......Page 122
1. Introduction......Page 124
2. Data and methodology......Page 126
3. Analysis and discussion of findings: Form and function of requesting and undertaking commitments......Page 132
4. Concluding observations......Page 137
References......Page 138
1. Introduction......Page 142
2. Method and material......Page 143
3. Speech acts and their linguistic realisations in history......Page 144
4. Promises as speech acts......Page 146
5. The "binding promise" in the medieval period......Page 147
6. The "magic words" - different ways of making a commitment......Page 148
7. The texts studied......Page 150
8. The magic words in use......Page 163
9. Summary of ways of promising and eliciting promises......Page 166
References......Page 169
Expressives and assertives......Page 172
1. Introductory remarks......Page 174
2. The chronological development of greeting terms......Page 175
3.1 Expressive phrases, attention-getters......Page 191
3.3 Wish for a good time of the day......Page 193
3.7 Inquiry about well-being......Page 194
3.9 Happy about seeing each other......Page 195
4.1 Functional changes......Page 196
4.2 Discursive changes......Page 197
4.4 Morphosyntactic changes and anomalies......Page 198
4.7 The need for innovation......Page 199
5. Conclusions......Page 200
1. Introduction......Page 204
2. Face-threatening and face-enhancing acts......Page 205
3. Present-day compliments......Page 206
4. Compliments in the past......Page 210
5. Methodologies of compliment research......Page 213
6. Locating compliments in historical materials......Page 216
7. Two examples in their sociohistorical context......Page 217
8. Fiction as data......Page 220
9. Gender differences in early fiction corpora......Page 222
9.1 Female authors' compliments......Page 224
9.2 Male authors' compliments......Page 229
10. Discussion and conclusion......Page 233
References......Page 235
1. Introduction......Page 238
2. Apology as a speech act: Criteria for comparison......Page 239
3. Contrastive versus historical speech act analysis......Page 240
4. Apology as a speech act in Present-day and Renaissance English......Page 242
6. Negotiations of interpersonal relations: Typical manifestations of apologies in our data......Page 243
7. Forms of apologies in Renaissance prose fiction and prose drama......Page 246
8. Functions of apologies: Types of offences......Page 248
9. Addressee- and speaker-oriented apologies......Page 250
10. Conclusion......Page 251
Methods of speech act retrieval......Page 254
2. Aim and method......Page 256
3. Corpus-based studies of speech acts......Page 257
4. The corpus data......Page 259
5. Identifying prototypical promises......Page 260
Figure 1. Performative verb frequencies in the testing data......Page 264
Table 2. Performative verb frequencies in the testing data......Page 265
Figure 2. Performative verb frequencies by author......Page 266
Figure 3. Pattern frequencies in the testing data......Page 267
Figure 4. Pattern frequencies by performative verb......Page 268
Table 3. Precision and recall rates for performative verbs......Page 272
Table 4. Precision and recall rates for query patterns......Page 275
8. Conclusions......Page 277
References......Page 279
Appendix A: Penn Treebank part-of-speech tagset......Page 281
1. Introduction......Page 282
2. Methodological challenges......Page 283
3.2 Method: Combining quantitative and qualitative assessment......Page 285
3.3 Inter-annotator agreement......Page 286
4. Assessment of the patterns......Page 287
4.1 Pattern 1......Page 288
4.3 Pattern 3......Page 294
4.4 Pattern 4......Page 295
4.6 Pattern 6......Page 296
4.8 Pattern 8......Page 297
5.1 Query problems......Page 298
5.2 Precision and recall revisited......Page 299
Table 2. Frequencies of compliment patterns in BNC, manual assessment......Page 300
6. Conclusions......Page 301
References......Page 302
1. Introduction......Page 304
2. A genre-based bottom-up methodology: The basic steps......Page 305
3.1 The data......Page 306
3.2 Manifestations of directives......Page 307
Figure 1. Distribution of manifestations of directives in the data (in per cent)......Page 310
3.4 Results: Distribution across genres......Page 311
Figure 2. Frequency of directives in sermons, letters and prayers (freq. per 1,000 words)......Page 312
Figure 4. Distribution of manifestations of directives in letters (in per cent)......Page 313
Figure 5. Distribution of manifestations of directives in prayers (in per cent)......Page 314
3.5 Extending the analysis......Page 315
Table 1. Directives with let us / let's in the Early Modern part of the Helsinki Corpus (frequency per 10,000 words, incidence in square brackets)......Page 316
Figure 6. Frequency of directive performatives in sermons, letters and prayers (freq. per 10,000 words)......Page 317
4. Conclusions......Page 318
References......Page 319
Name index......Page 320
Subject index......Page 324
The Pragmatics & Beyond New Series......Page 328

"Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they use them in the same way? How did they signal speech act values and how did they negotiate them in case of uncertainty? These are some of the questions that are addressed in this volume in innovative case studies that cover a wide range of speech acts from Old English to Present-day English. All the studies offer careful discussions of methodological and theoretical issues as well as detailed descriptions of specific speech acts. The first part of the volume is devoted to directives and commissives, i.e. speech acts such as requests, commands and promises. The second part is devoted to expressives and assertives and deals with speech acts such as greetings, compliments and apologies. The third part, finally, contains technical reports that deal primarily with the problem of extracting speech acts from historical corpora."--Jacket

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