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Author Fitzmaurice, Susan M.

Title The familiar letter in early modern English : a pragmatic approach / Susan M. Fitzmaurice.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Company, [2002]
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Description 1 online resource (258 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : portraits.
Series Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 95
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 95. 0922-842X
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index.
Contents The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: The pragmatics of epistolary conversation; Chapter 2: Context and the linguistic construction of epistolary worlds; Chapter 3: Making and reading epistolary meaning; Chapter 4: Sociable letters, acts of advice and medical counsel; Chapter 5: Epistolary acts of seeking and dispensing patronage; Chapter 6: Intersubjectivity and the writing of the epistolary interlocutor; Chapter 7: Relevance and the consequences of unintended epistolary meanings.
Summary This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this method through case studies that illuminate how modern pragmatic theory may be applied to distant speech communities in both history and culture in order to reveal how speakers understand one another and how they exploit intended and unintended meanings for their own communicative ends. The analysis dem.
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Subject English letters -- History and criticism.
English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Letter writing -- History -- 16th century.
Letter writing -- History -- 17th century.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Letters.
English letters. (OCoLC)fst00911983
English prose literature -- Early modern. (OCoLC)fst01710966
Letter writing. (OCoLC)fst00996699
Briefwisseling.
Brieven.
Engels.
Chronological Term 1500-1700
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Fitzmaurice, Susan M. Familiar letter in early modern English. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2002 (DLC) 2002018542
ISBN 9789027297396 (electronic bk.)
9027297398 (electronic bk.)
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