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Books: Discourse Analysis/Historical Ling/Pragmatics: Arnovick
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Written Reliquaries: Arnovick
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Date: 16-Jan-2007
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Written Reliquaries: Arnovick
Title: Written Reliquaries
Subtitle: The resonance of orality in medieval English texts
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 153
Published: 2006
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P%26bns%20153
Author: Leslie Arnovick
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027253965 Pages: 292 Price: U.S. $ 115.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027253965 Pages: 292 Price: U.K. £ 138.00
Abstract:
The resonance of orality in medieval English texts establishes the
linguistic component of orality and oral tradition. The relics it examines
are traces of spoken performance, artifacts of linguistic and cultural
processes. Seven case studies animate verbal acts of making promises,
quoting proverbs, pronouncing curses, speaking gibberish, praying Pater
Nosters, invoking saints, and keeping silence. The study of their resonance
is enabled by a methodological conjunction of historical pragmatics and
oral theory. Insights from oral theory enlighten spoken traditions which in
turn may be understood in the larger historical-pragmatic context of
linguistic performance. The inquiry ranges across broad as well as narrow
planes of reference to trace a complex set of cultural and linguistic
interactions. In this way it reconstructs relevant discursive contexts,
giving detailed accounts of underlying assumptions, traditions, and
conventions. Doing so, the book demonstrates that an integrated methodology
not only allows access to oral discourse in both Old English and Middle
English but also provides insight into the fluid medieval interchange of
literacy and orality.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments, ix
List of Figures, xi
Preface, 1-7
Reconstructing Spoken Performance in Medieval Texts: A Joint Exploration in
Oral Theory and Historical Pragmatics, 9-23
Oral Relics in Old English
Speaking Gibberish, 27-59
Praying the Pater Noster, 61-90
Invoking Saints, 91-134
Keeping Silence, 135-151
Oral Relics in Middle English
Making Promises, 155-174
Quoting Proverbs, 175-194
Pronouncing Book Curses, 195-213
Conclusion, 215-222
Appendices, 223-243
Notes, 245-264
Bibliography, 265-283
Index, 285-292
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Historical Linguistics
Pragmatics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Written In: English (eng )
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