{"title":"A diachronic corpus-pragmatic approach to democratization","authors":"Elena Seoane, Lucía Loureiro-Porto","doi":"10.1075/jhp.00074.seo","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n Democratization is often invoked as an explanatory factor for diachronic linguistic developments. We believe that\n at the root of democratization often lies the pragmatic negotiation of power relations, whereby a more democratic use of language\n can reduce the distance between addresser and addressee. This article examines the evolution of power relations in the New\n York Times editorials from 1860 to 1979 as represented in COHA. After a quantitative analysis of the evolution of\n three pragmatic variables that index democratization, the study offers a qualitative analysis with the aim of anchoring them to\n the situational context of newspaper editorials, especially regarding the power relations negotiated in this register over time.\n This paper also examines the impact of socio-historical events on the evolution of power relations and shows that they are\n intimately linked.","PeriodicalId":54081,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Historical Pragmatics","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.00074.seo","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"N/A","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Democratization is often invoked as an explanatory factor for diachronic linguistic developments. We believe that
at the root of democratization often lies the pragmatic negotiation of power relations, whereby a more democratic use of language
can reduce the distance between addresser and addressee. This article examines the evolution of power relations in the New
York Times editorials from 1860 to 1979 as represented in COHA. After a quantitative analysis of the evolution of
three pragmatic variables that index democratization, the study offers a qualitative analysis with the aim of anchoring them to
the situational context of newspaper editorials, especially regarding the power relations negotiated in this register over time.
This paper also examines the impact of socio-historical events on the evolution of power relations and shows that they are
intimately linked.
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.
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