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IF 0.4 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Journal of Historical Pragmatics Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI:10.1075/jhp.20013.els
Christine Elsweiler
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This study applies House’s (1996, 2005) dimensions of cross-cultural differences as a diagnostic tool to investigate regional variation regarding two pragmalinguistic requestive patterns with may in Scottish and English non-private letters (1500 to 1700). The dimensional scheme proves a useful tool for explaining similarities and differences in the requestive behaviour in the two varieties. It is shown that, in the sixteenth century, grounders with may are part of a set of downgrading devices employed by letter-writers to counteract the directness and self-orientation particularly of performative requests in both the Scottish and the English correspondence. Moreover, the dimensional analysis explicates the cross-varietal differences regarding may in the seventeenth century correspondence by linking the rise of mitigating may in performative requests in the Scottish letters to the increased self-orientation towards the letter-writer, which is not counter-balanced by other downgraders.
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本研究应用House(19962005)的跨文化差异维度作为诊断工具,调查苏格兰和英国非私人信件(1500至1700)中两种语用语言请求模式的区域差异。维度方案被证明是解释这两个变体中请求行为的相似性和差异性的有用工具。研究表明,在16世纪,带有may的grounders是写信人用来抵消直接性和自我定向的一系列降级手段的一部分,尤其是在苏格兰和英国的信件中。此外,维度分析通过将苏格兰信件中表演请求中减轻语气的可能的增加与对写信人日益增强的自我取向联系起来,解释了17世纪信件中关于可能的跨品种差异,而其他降级者并没有对此进行反衡。
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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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