Graham T. Williams

List of John Benjamins publications in which Graham T. Williams is involved.

Title

Women's Epistolary Utterance: A study of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611

Graham T. Williams

Located at the intersection of historical pragmatics, letters and manuscript studies, this book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611. It investigates multiple ways in which socio-culturally and socio-familially contextualized reading of particular… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 233] 2013. ix, 266 pp.

Articles

Williams, Graham T. 2017  wine min Unferð : Courtly speech and a reconsideration of (supposed) sarcasm in Beowulf  Historical (socio)pragmatics at present, Włodarczyk, Matylda and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 175–194 | Article

This paper argues for a reconsideration of the pragmatics of Beowulf, specifically in relation to speech in what is known as the “Unferð Episode”, and more generally in terms of the poem’s placement in the ethnopragmatic history of English. Previous critics have almost unanimously read sarcasm… read more

Williams, Graham T. 2010 “trobled wth a tedious discours”: Sincerity, sarcasm and seriousness in the letters of Maria Thynne, c. 1601–1610 Journal of Historical Pragmatics 11:2, pp. 169–193 | Article

This study provides close, pragmatically-orientated readings of epistolary manifestations of sincerity, sarcasm and seriousness as expressed in the letters of Maria Thynne to her mother-in-law and to her husband, at the beginning of the seventeenth century. By examining how each mode of expression… read more