
English Historical Linguistics 2008 : Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008. Volume II: Words, texts and genres.
Title:
English Historical Linguistics 2008 : Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008. Volume II: Words, texts and genres.
Author:
Sauer, Hans.
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9789027273574
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1 online resource (289 pages)
Series:
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory ; v.324
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
Contents:
ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2008 VOLUME II -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword & Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- a. Dictionaries and reference works -- b. Other abbreviations used in the present volume -- Editors' introduction -- 1. Survey -- 2. Etymology -- 3. Semantic fields -- 4. Word-formation -- 5. Text linguistics, text types, politeness -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Etymology -- Etymology and the OED -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The complexity of historical dictionary entries -- 3. Words with discontinuous histories -- 4. Lexical splits -- 5. Lexical mergers -- 6. An etymology where both meaning and word form suggest a merger: queer -- 7. Change in word form in etymology -- 7.1 Associative change in word form -- 7.2 An unsolved puzzle: polecat -- 7.3 Unresolved phonological difficulty: purse -- 8. Problems of semantic development -- 8.1 Etymologies where no clear semantic connection can be established -- 9. Towards a methodology -- Sources -- References -- On the etymological relationships of wank, swank, and wonky -- Sources -- References -- Base etymology in the historical thesauri of deverbatives in English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The etymological partitioning of synonymous strings of verbs modelled on the OED textual prototypes -- 3. The etymological partitioning of synonymous strings of deverbal coinages -- 3.1 The (sub-)strings of participles -- 3.2 The (sub-)strings of adjectives -- 3.3 The (sub-)strings of second order deverbal coinages -- 3.4 The (sub-)strings of deverbal nouns -- 3.4.1 The suffix(es) uniform (sub-)strings of deverbal nouns -- 4. Diachronically expanding sequences of the etymological (sub-)strings of verbs and their coinages -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 The (sub-)strings of verbs and participles -- 5.2 The (sub-)strings of verbs and adjectives.
5.3 Sequential deficiency of second order suffixal (sub-)strings -- 5.4 The (sub-)strings of verbs and substantives -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Sources -- References -- Part II. Semantic fields -- The global organization of the English lexicon and its evolution -- 1. Theoretical preliminaries -- 2. Small-world networks of nouns and verbs in WordNet -- 3. Small-world networks of nouns and verbs in TOE -- 4. The effects of word frequency -- 5. Implications for brain networks -- 6. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Repayment and revenge -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The management of feud in Germanic law -- 3. Legal universals -- 4. Metaphor and metonymy -- 5. Changing concepts of concrete and abstract -- 6. Current developments -- Sources -- References -- Appendix A -- Extracts from TOE = A Thesaurus of Old English (Roberts & Kay 1995) -- Appendix B -- DOE = Dictionary of Old English Project 2008, s.v. for-gyldan -- Semantic change in the domain of the vocabulary of christian clergy -- 1. Statement of purpose -- 2. Discussion -- 2.1 Conceptual link: Function of the office -- 2.2 Conceptual link: Appearance -- 2.3 Conceptual link: Position in hierarchy -- 2.4 Conceptual link: Habitual behaviour -- 3. Concluding remarks -- Sources -- References -- APPENDIX -- Part III. Word-formation -- Abstract noun 'suffixes' and text type in Old English -- 1. Objective and methodology -- 2. Classification of suffixes -- 3. Suffixation in prototypical text categories -- 3.1 General suffix coverage in text categories -- 3.2 Suffixation: Variation and context -- 3.3 Text categories and language change -- 4. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Appendix -- The lexicalisation of syncope -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syncope: The traditional account -- 3. Effect of derivational suffixes -- 4. The problematic derivational affix -ig.
5. The effect of syncope on -ig¹: restructuring in hefig 'heavy' -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Oriented -ingly adjuncts in Late Modern English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Harry Potter adverbs -- 3. Previous analyses -- 4. Harry Potter adverbs in Late Modern English: The ARCHER evidence -- 5. More corpus-based evidence -- 6. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Part IV. Textlinguistics, text types, politeness -- Historical text linguistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The field of study -- 3. Texts and genres in the history of English: Perspectives of linguistic research -- 3.1 Historical Text Linguistics proper -- 3.2 Diachronically oriented text linguistics -- 3.3 Text-oriented historical linguistics -- 4. Towards a history of English as a history of its genres: The domain of religion -- 4.1 Theoretical preliminaries -- 4.1.1 Genres, text types and text functions -- 4.1.2 An approach to texts and genres in the history of English -- 4.2 Locating genres in the religious domain -- 4.3 Functional profiles in religious genres -- 4.4 Linguistic profiles in religious genres -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Repetitive and therefore fixed? -- 1. Text-type standardisation -- 2. Investigating the link between repetition and fixedness -- 3. Extracting fixed lexical strings and their functional interpretation -- 4. The corpus and the method -- 5. Semantic and functional categorisation of lemmatic bundles -- 5.1 Expressions relating to the field: External reality -- 5.2 Expressions relating to the tenor: Author reality, participant reality -- 5.3 Expressions relating to the mode: Channel reality -- 6. Conclusions -- Sources -- References -- Appendix -- Folder codes -- Politeness Strategies in Late Middle English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Address forms in The Book of Margery Kempe -- 3. Indirect requests in The Book of Margery Kempe.
4. Address forms in Julian's Revelations -- 5. Indirect requests in Julian's Revelations -- 6. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- A diachronic discussion of extenders in English remedies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Description of data -- 3. Medical Recipes -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 Adjunctive general extenders -- 4.2 Disjunctive general extenders -- 5. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- "It is with a trembling hand I beg to intrude this letter" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Socio-cultural background -- 3. Theoretical framework -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Analysis and discussion -- 5.1 Salutations -- 5.2 Subscriptions -- 5.3 Pre-close -- 5.4 Content -- 5.4.1 Negative politeness strategies -- 5.4.1.1 Give freedom of action through indirectness -- 5.4.1.2 Minimize imposition through apologies or admission of impingement -- 5.4.1.3 Dissociate S and R from act -- 5.4.2 Positive politeness strategies -- 5.4.2.1 Claim a common ground -- 5.4.2.2 Fulfill receiver's wants -- 5.4.2.3 Focus on cooperation -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Genre analysis -- 1. A short history of the English research article since 1665 -- 2. RA sections -- 3. RA introductions -- 4. A case study of two RA introductions -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- Sources -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
This paper opens with a brief account of the history of the English scientific research article (RA) over the past 350 years. Apart from a historical overview of the genre of RA, a synchronic analysis is also carried out on one of the main sections of the RA introduction. Two RA introductions from waterway and transportation engineering fields are presented and discussed here.The analysis shows that the two RA introductions are structured to perform different discourse functions, and confirms the hypothesis that Swales' CARS model is applicable to these two RA introductions. Two new steps are also found: Move 2, Step 1B*, which signals shortcomings of the paper and is inserted into Move 3, Step 1B, and Move 1 or Move 3, Step 1*, which is introduced to define key concepts.
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