Thou And You In Early Modern English Dialogues

Author : Terry Walker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902725401X

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Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues by Terry Walker Pdf

This book is a corpus-based study examining thou and you in three speech-related genres from 1560–1760, a crucial period in the history of second person singular pronouns, spanning the time from when you became dominant to when thou became all but obsolete. The study embraces the fields of corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and historical sociolinguistics. Using data drawn from the recently released A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 and manuscript material, the aim is to ascertain which extra-linguistic and linguistic factors highlighted by previous research appear particularly relevant in the selection and relative distribution of thou and you. Previous research on thou and you has tended to concentrate on Drama and/or been primarily qualitative in nature. Depositions in particular have hitherto received very little attention. This book is intended to help fill a gap in the literature by presenting an in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis of pronoun usage in Trials, Depositions, and, for comparative purposes, Drama Comedy.

Author : Martin Villwock
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638861915

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'I’ll tell thee thou dost evil' by Martin Villwock Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: English Grammar – synchronic and diachronic aspects, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In Middle English and Early Modern English one could choose either You or Thou (and their respective variants see Simpson et al. 2005: entry Thou, pers., pron., 2nd sing.). Either choice carried a number of implications, depending on the period of time in the language (Barber 1976:204-210). This system, which exists in many (but predominately European) countries is generally referred to as the T/V distinction. Although similar to the German T/V distinction (Blake 1983:6), there is a phenomenon in Early Modern English, particularly in Shakespeare’s plays, which sets the You/Thou distinction apart. Whereas in German, French or Italian, it would be very rare and even rude to switch back and forth from T to V or the other way around, this must have happened quite frequently in Early Modern English dialogues (Brown and Gilman 1960:274-275). Eventually, of course, the use of Thou declined leaving the English language with only one second person pronoun, serving all cases without alteration (except possessive Yours and determiner Your) and both singular and plural (Görlach 1991:85). A speaker of Early Modern English consequently had not only the option of choosing T or V once, he or she could also switch within a conversation, sometimes within a single utterance. The choice then would carry certain implications, about the emotions of the speaker, about his fondness or dislike of the addressee, or about the social ranks of both addresser and addressee. As a result, choosing the pronoun became a tool in dialogues that could be used to acknowledge or insult. The T/V distinction will be discussed, its appearance in Early Modern English and particularly Shakespeare’s language. Then, in order to attain an achievable amount of research for a paper of this size, one of Shakespeare’s plays will be regarded with some detail. The choice fell on King Lear...

Author : Alexander Bergs,Laurel Brinton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110525069

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Early Modern English by Alexander Bergs,Laurel Brinton Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive account of Early Modern English, organized by linguistic level. The volume not only presents detailed outlines of the traditional language levels, it also explores key questions and debates, such as do-periphrasis, the Great Vowel Shift, pronouns and relativization, literary language (including the language of Shakespeare), and sociolinguistics, including contact and standardization.

Author : Jonathan Culpeper,Merja Kytö
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521835411

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Early Modern English Dialogues by Jonathan Culpeper,Merja Kytö Pdf

This book analyses speech-related genres in Early Modern English, providing ideas of what spoken interaction in earlier times might have been like.

Author : Maurizio Gotti,Marina Dossena,Richard Dury
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027248114

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English Historical Linguistics 2006: Lexical and semantic change by Maurizio Gotti,Marina Dossena,Richard Dury Pdf

The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, and dialectology, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on semantics, pragmatics and register variation. A rich variety of state-of-the-art studies and plenary lectures by acknowledged world experts in the field bears witness to the quality of the scholarly interest in this field of research. In all the contributions, well-established methods combine with new theoretical approaches, in an attempt to shed more light on phenomena that have hitherto remained unexplored, or have only just begun to be investigated. The accurate peer-reviewed selection ensures the methodological homogeneity of the papers.

Author : Gabriella Mazzon,Luisanna Fodde Melis
Publisher : FrancoAngeli
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788820413842

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Historical Perspectives on Forms of English Dialogue by Gabriella Mazzon,Luisanna Fodde Melis Pdf

Author : Gabriella Mazzon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254306

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Interactive Dialogue Sequences in Middle English Drama by Gabriella Mazzon Pdf

This book looks at mediaeval English drama using the theoretical frameworks of historical sociopragmatics and dialogue analysis. It focuses on the collection of cycle plays known as the N.Town Plays, preserved in a manuscript from the fifteenth century. The book examines various linguistic markers that are important for the expression of social relations and pragmatic stance: pronouns and terms of address, modal markers, performatives, and sequential structures such as question-answer, imperative-compliance, etc. These elements are examined separately and then brought together to arrive at a more integrated analysis of dramatic dialogue and of the dynamics of interaction it portrays. A separate chapter is devoted to tracing the same mechanisms on a different communication level, i.e. in 'dialogue' with the audience, which is particularly relevant to the instructional purposes of the plays. The book will be useful to students and scholars of pragmatics, historical linguistics, dialogue studies and drama studies.

Author : Alexander Bergs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110251593

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English Historical Linguistics by Alexander Bergs Pdf

The series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.

Author : Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107113640

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English Historical Linguistics by Laurel J. Brinton Pdf

Uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches, this is an advanced textbook on the study of English historical linguistics.

Author : Andreas H. Jucker,Irma Taavitsainen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110214284

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Historical Pragmatics by Andreas H. Jucker,Irma Taavitsainen Pdf

The Handbook of Historical Pragmatics provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in pragmatics devoted to a diachronic study of language use and human interaction in context. It covers all areas of historical pragmatics from grammaticalization theory to pragmatic entities, such as discourse markers, speech acts and politeness to individual discourse domains from scientific writing to literary discourse. Each contribution, written by a leading specialist, gives a succinct, representative and up-to-date overview of research questions, theories, methods and recent developments in the field.

Author : Marina Dossena,John G. Newman,Sylwester Łodej
Publisher : Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Token: A Journal of English Linguistics (Volume 3) by Marina Dossena,John G. Newman,Sylwester Łodej Pdf

Token focuses on English linguistics in a broad sense, taking in both diachronic and synchronic work, grammatical as well as lexical studies. That being said, the journal favors empirical research. All submissions are double-blind peer reviewed. Token is the original medium of publication for all articles that the journal prints.

Author : Julie Dillenkofer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668034860

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The use of "thou" and its variants in religious discourse in Early Modern English by Julie Dillenkofer Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: Historical Pragmatics, language: English, abstract: "You" is an unusually versatile personal pronoun; it is “used to address two or more persons, animals, or personified things” and "thus" indicates the nominative and accusative in both singular and plural. However, you has not always been the only second person English pronoun. In Old and Middle English, there were various pronouns differentiating among gender, person, case, number including dual number. By the time period of Early Modern English, the number of pronouns was restricted and - eventually - three different forms came to be used as the nominative second person pronoun: you, ye and thou (alternative spelling: thow). In general, thou was used as the singular form, whereas ye and you were used for the plural. At the beginning of Early Modern English, ye was used as the nominative second person pronoun, while you was primarily used as the correspondent accusative form. However, in the course of the Early Modern English period, you supplanted ye as the nominative but maintained its use as the accusative form as well. On the other hand, by the end of the Early Modern English time period, you expanded its use to both the singular and the plural form and has remained that way ever since (cf. Barber 1997; Görlach 1993; Nevalainen 2006).

Author : Martin Villwock
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638861991

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'I'll Tell Thee Thou Dost Evil' by Martin Villwock Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: English Grammar - synchronic and diachronic aspects, language: English, abstract: In Middle English and Early Modern English one could choose either You or Thou (and their respective variants see Simpson et al. 2005: entry Thou, pers., pron., 2nd sing.). Either choice carried a number of implications, depending on the period of time in the language (Barber 1976:204-210). This system, which exists in many (but predominately European) countries is generally referred to as the T/V distinction. Although similar to the German T/V distinction (Blake 1983:6), there is a phenomenon in Early Modern English, particularly in Shakespeare's plays, which sets the You/Thou distinction apart. Whereas in German, French or Italian, it would be very rare and even rude to switch back and forth from T to V or the other way around, this must have happened quite frequently in Early Modern English dialogues (Brown and Gilman 1960:274-275). Eventually, of course, the use of Thou declined leaving the English language with only one second person pronoun, serving all cases without alteration (except possessive Yours and determiner Your) and both singular and plural (Görlach 1991:85). A speaker of Early Modern English consequently had not only the option of choosing T or V once, he or she could also switch within a conversation, sometimes within a single utterance. The choice then would carry certain implications, about the emotions of the speaker, about his fondness or dislike of the addressee, or about the social ranks of both addresser and addressee. As a result, choosing the pronoun became a tool in dialogues that could be used to acknowledge or insult. The T/V distinction will be discussed, its appearance in Early Modern English and particularly Shakespeare's language. Then, in order to attain an achievable amount of researc

Author : Carolina P. Amador-Moreno,Dagmar Haumann,Arne Peters
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003807957

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Digitally-assisted Historical English Linguistics by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno,Dagmar Haumann,Arne Peters Pdf

This collection features different perspectives on how digital tools are changing our understanding of language varieties, language contact, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and dialectology through the lens of different historical contexts. With a clear focus on English, chapters in the volume showcase a broad range of digital methods and approaches that can contribute to advancing the study of historical linguistics. Visualization tools and corpus-linguistic techniques are part of the methodologies included in the volume. The chapters present empirically based research and discuss theoretical aspects that emphasize how digitalization is changing our analysis of different domains of language, going from phonology to specific grammatical/morphosyntactic and lexical features, to discourse-related issues more broadly. This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, and digital humanities.

Author : Irma Taavitsainen,Andreas H. Jucker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296672

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Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems by Irma Taavitsainen,Andreas H. Jucker Pdf

Address term systems and their diachronic developments are discussed in a wide range of European languages in this volume. Most chapters focus on pronominal systems, and in particular on the criteria that govern the choices between a more intimate and a more distant or polite pronoun, as for instance thou and you in Early Modern English, vos and vuestra merced in sixteenth century Spanish or du and Sie in Modern German. Several contributions deal with situations in which more than two terms can be used and several also note co-occurrence patterns of pronominal and nominal forms of address. The volume provides a multivaried picture of the evolutionary lines of address term systems and a representative range of current approaches from pragmatics and sociolinguistics to conversation analysis. It is thus a timely contribution to the rapidly expanding field of historical pragmatics.