Susan Fitzmaurice
List of John Benjamins publications in which Susan Fitzmaurice is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1566-5852 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9854
Titles
Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Edited by Annick Paternoster and Susan Fitzmaurice
This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the ‘long’ nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth century heralds a significant transition in the meanings and realisations of politeness, between the Ancien Régime and the contemporary period, with the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299] 2019. vii, 288 pp.
The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English: A pragmatic approach
Susan Fitzmaurice
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… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 95] 2002. viii, 263 pp.
Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation
Edited by Randi Reppen, Susan Fitzmaurice and Douglas Biber
Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation illustrates the ways in which linguistic variation can be explored through corpus-based investigation. Two major kinds of research questions are considered: variation in the use of a particular linguistic feature, and variation across dialects or… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 9] 2002. xii, 275 pp.
2022 Volatile concepts: Analysing discursive change through underspecification in co-occurrence quads Corpus studies of language through time: Special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:4 (2022), McEnery, Tony, Gavin Brookes and Isobelle Clarke (eds.), pp. 428–450 | Article
This paper demonstrates the value of studying co-occurrence ‘quads’ – constellations of four non-adjacent lemmas that consistently co-occur across spans of up to 100 tokens – for understanding discursive change. We map meaning onto quads as ‘discursive concepts’, which encompass encyclopaedic… read more
2021 Looking for concepts in Early Modern English: Hypothesis building and the uses of encyclopaedic knowledge and pragmatic work Historical Pragmatics today: Articles in honour of Andreas H. Jucker, Taavitsainen, Irma and Jonathan Culpeper (eds.), pp. 282–300 | Article
The idea that conceptual meaning in discourse could be identified in constellations of lexical co-occurrences in a particular “universe” of discourse was key in guiding the computational historical semantic–pragmatic work conducted in the Linguistic dna project. The project mapped prominent… read more
2019 Politeness in nineteenth-century Europe, a research agenda Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Paternoster, Annick and Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.), pp. 1–36 | Chapter
2017 Reading into the past: Materials and methods in historical semantics research Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics, Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 53–82 | Chapter
The Linguistic DNA project investigates concepts in early modern England and adopts a bottom-up approach to query whether the key concepts intuited by historians of ideas are manifested in the printed discourse of the time. By applying computational methods and close reading to Early English Books… read more
2012 Sociability: Conversation and the performance of friendship
in early eighteenth-century letters Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics, Busse, Ulrich and Axel Hübler (eds.), pp. 21–44 | Article
2011 The sociopragmatics of a lovers' spat: The case of the eighteenth-century courtship letters of Mary Pierrepont and Edward Wortley Historical Sociopragmatics, Culpeper, Jonathan (ed.), pp. 37–59 | Article
2010 Mr Spectator, identity and social roles in an early eighteenth-century community of practice and the periodical discourse community Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English, Pahta, Päivi, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 29–53 | Article
This paper explores questions of identity and social roles in the Spectator community of practice and its broader periodical discourse community in commercial publishing in early eighteenth-century London. A keyword analysis of the Spectator essays reveals the lexical underpinnings of the… read more
2009 The sociopragmatics of a lovers’ spat: The case of the eighteenth-century courtship letters of Mary Pierrepont and Edward Wortley Historical Sociopragmatics, Culpeper, Jonathan (ed.), pp. 215–237 | Article
This paper involves the historical construction of pragmatic meanings in a courtship correspondence of the eighteenth century. I draw on relevance theory in a pilot analysis preliminary to the pragmatic coding of implicature and inference in a rich body of epistolary prose in the letters subcorpus… read more
2002 “Plethoras of witty verbiage” and “heathen Greek”: Ways of reading meaning in English comic drama Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3:1, pp. 31–60 | Article
This paper draws upon Horn’s reworking of Grice’s conversational maxims as Q- and R-principles in order to provide a rich pragmatic reading of British comic drama, from the London comedies of Ben Jonson, to the restoration comedy of William Wycherley to the late twentieth-century London comedy of… read more
2002 12. The textual resolution of structural ambiguity in eighteenth-century English: A corpus linguistic study of patterns of negation Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation, Reppen, Randi, Susan Fitzmaurice and Douglas Biber (eds.), pp. 227–247 | Chapter
2000 Remarks on the de-grammaticalisation of infinitival to in present-day American English Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English, Fischer, Olga, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 171–186 | Article
2000 Some remarks on the rhetoric of historical pragmatics Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1:1, pp. 1–6 | Article
1998 Grammaticalisation, Textuality and Subjectivity: The Progressive and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle The Virtues of Language: History in language, linguistics and texts, Stein, Dieter and Rosanna Sornicola (eds.), pp. 21–50 | Article