In:Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types
Edited by Luisella Caon, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 364] 2024
► pp. 251–253
Index
Published online: 4 April 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.364.index
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.364.index
A
- abbreviation 188–193, 205, 215, 217–219, 239–244
- ad socordiam 93–94, 96–98
- Andreas (OE text)1
- animacy graphematics 33–34, 36–38, 40–42, 50–51, 54
B
- Beowulf (OE text)1
- Bill of Rights 86, 89, 90, 98
C
- Canterbury Tales (ME text) 15, 23
- capitalization, (generic and sentence-internal capitalization) 33–54, 192–194, 205, 219
- community of practice 130, 136
- colloquialization 154, 156–158, 165, 173–174
- comedy 60–81
- conduct 130, 132–138, 140–142, 146–150
- Cooperative Principle 88, 96–97
- copying practices 180–197
- corpora
- A Corpus of Late Modern English Prose198
- A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers (ARCHER) 155, 158
- Corpora of Early English Correspondence (CEEC) 160–161
- Corpus of Contemporary English Legal Decisions, 1950–2021 (CoCELD) 102, 106–107, 109–120
- Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC) 159, 162, 198
- Corpus of English Dialogues (CED) 15, 24–27
- Corpus of Historical English Law Reports, 1535–1999 (CHELAR) 102, 104–106, 109–118, 120
- Corpus of Late Modern English Texts (CLMET) 15, 21, 24–29, 34, 40–44, 54
- Corpus of Nineteenth-Century English (CONCE) 15, 26–28
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) 14, 16–17, 34, 40–44, 54
- Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) 14, 16, 64
- Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots (HCOS)229
- Literature Online (LION)64
- Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence (PCEEC) 155, 158, 161–162, 165–166
- Political Opposition, Loyalty and Indifference in Texts from Eighteenth-Century Scotland (POLITECS) 230–232, 236, 249
- Tagged Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension (TCEECE) 155, 159, 161–166, 173, 175
- The Mary Hamilton Papers corpus194
- correspondence 62, 70, 154–155, 157–158, 180–197, 225–228, 230, 239–241, 242–244 ; see also letter writing, private correspondence
- covert intentions 75, 86, 92–95, 97, 98
- culture of medicine131
D
- deceptive communication 60, 75, 80, 86–89, 94, 96–98
- degree words 19, 21–22, 27, 29
- derivational morphology 101–122
- diaries 182, 186–187
- dictionaries
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED) 11, 14–17, 21–22, 27, 29, 87, 92, 114, 125, 215, 217, 219–220
- Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) (DEL) 131, 136, 138, 147, 205
- discourse analysis86
- discourse
129, 130, 133, 136, 138, 148–150
- manipulative96
- metalinguistic 44–54
- legal 101–105, 107, 110, 121, 235, 237, 240–241
- downtoners 11–12, 19, 27, 30
- dramatic literature 25, 30, 36 60–81, 156, 158
- Dutch 34–35, 37, 39–40
- duty 129–150
E
- Early Modern English (EModE) 13, 24, 46
- Englishes
- British English (BrE) 16, 60–81
- epistemic vigilance95
- ethics 14, 129–132, 134–135, 137–138, 142, 148–152
F
- Foundling Hospital 198–224
- French 35, 70–71, 111
G
- gender 60–81, 154–155, 158–160, 164–165, 167, 172–174, 205
- genre evolution 154, 158, 172–174
- German 34–40, 42, 44, 46, 53–54
- grammar books 40, 44–53, 173, 205
- grammarians 33–35, 37, 39, 46, 50, 52, 61, 63, 198
- grammaticography 37, 46–47
H
- Hamilton, Mary 180–197
- hedging strategies30
- historical pragmatics 30, 86
- historical sociolinguistics 154, 160, 228, 241, 243
- hospital 130, 132–133, 137, 143, 146–147, 149, 151 ; see also community of practice
I
- identity politics 226, 228, 241
- implicature 22, 88, 96
- indexical field 62, 68, 76–81, 226, 228
- information visualization175
- informational style 103, 105, 116–117, 155, 157–160, 164, 166, 175
- inter-writer variation 225–226, 228, 231, 243–244
- intra-writer variation 228–244
- involved style 30, 105–117, 155–160, 162, 164–166, 168–169, 174
- irony 12–13, 27
J
- Jackson, James 91–93, 95–98
- Johnson, Samuel 131, 136, 138, 150, 206 ; see also dictionaries
- judicial decisions 101–102, 104–107, 109–110, 112–113, 115–117, 119, 121–122
L
- Late Modern English (LModE) 13–14, 150, 152, 174, 180–197, 198, 203, 205, 218, 220
- letter writing 27, 30, 39, 154–175, 180–197, 198, 200, 205, 206, 213, 215, 217, 222, 244 ; see also correspondence, private correspondence
- letter-writing manuals 173, 199–200, 203–204, 207, 214, 219, 220, 222
- lexical
- network 129–130, 134
- strengthening239
- bundles 235, 237, 239
- pairs142
- lexicalization 129–130, 140–142, 144, 148–149
- lexis 129, 148
- litotes 10, 12–14, 18, 24
- Lowth, Robert 36, 61–62, 64, 66, 69, 71, 80, 190–191, 205–206, 215, 222–223
M
- Madison, James 89–91, 95, 96, 98
- maxims
- quality 88–89, 96–97
- quantity 88–89, 96–97
- flouting 88–89, 96–97
- medical education134
- medical ethics 129–132, 134, 137–138, 142, 148, 150
- medical profession 130, 136, 144, 149–150
- medical writing 112, 129–150
- medico gentility 131, 133, 144
- meiosis 11, 14, 16–17, 19, 29
- metalinguistic approach 14, 15–21, 29–30
- metapragmatic marking 21–22
- Meters of Boethius (OE text)1
- Middle English (ME) 13, 23, 30, 180–181, 229
- mitigation 12–13, 17, 20, 25
- morality 14, 74, 129–135, 137–138, 140, 143–144, 148–149
N
- negation 12–13, 19, 21–27, 30, 75
- nominalization 34–35, 49, 101–126, 156
- normative linguistics 60–81
O
- office 129–130, 132–138, 140–150 ; see also medical ethics
- Old English (OE) 1, 10, 13, 126
- orthography 33, 36, 39, 49, 54, 225–226, 229, 232, 234–235, 238–239, 241
- overstatement 15–16
P
- part-of-speech frequencies 154–155, 161–162, 164, 173
- petition forms, filled-in 198–224
- petitions, hand-drafted 198–224
- plain language movement 104–106, 122
- politics, language of 92, 93, 98, 225–227, 230–237, 241, 244
- pragmatics 86, 89
- prescriptivism 40, 44, 54, 60–63, 68, 73, 225–226
- private correspondence 63, 180–197, 206 225–228, 230, 239–240, 242–244 ; see also correspondence, letter writing
- private spelling system 36, 81, 191, 205
- pronoun, second-person 60–61, 70, 72, 152–157, 159–160, 166, 168, 173 ; see also thou vs. you
Q
- qualitative analysis 15, 34, 44–54, 68–81, 134–135, 137–138, 157, 208
- quantitative analysis 34, 41, 54, 66–68, 135, 137–138
- quantity 19, 21–22, 27
- quh- 225–244
S
- Scots
- eighteenth-century 225–244
- periodisation of 228–229
- spelling 33–54, 134, 161, 175, 208, 210–211, 213–221, 226, 229, 231, 236, 238–240, 243 ; see also private spelling system
- spelling books 33, 39, 44–53, 57, 190, 205
- spelling, epistolary 186, 189–192, 194, 215–218, 221, 223, 226–227
- style-shifting 60–61, 76, 228, 230, 234, 244
- stylistic change 154, 155, 157–158, 172, 228, 240, 243–244
T
- thou vs. you 60–61, 72, 74 ; see also pronoun, second-person
U
- understatement 10–30
V
- verbs
- lexical 155–156, 161–162, 164–166, 169, 172–174
- private 103, 105, 157, 168, 173
- semi-modal 156–157
W
- Widsith (OE text)1
