La parola difficile. Autobiografia di un italo-americano

Giordano, Paolo; Tusiani, Joseph

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“…Underlying the thetic use of blessings and curses is a view of how words relate to things, something which Israel shared with other neighbours in the ancient Near East. Still in the area of thetic uses, zooming in on ancient Greece, Giordano (1994) discusses the performative nature shared by blessings and curses in the religious domain. More precisely, ‘essi appartengono allo stesso tipo del dire, i.e.…”

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Syntagmatic conformity: Blessings and curses in Winthrop’sChristian Charitie

Vergaro

2022

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Despite all the attention Puritan sermons have received, no attention has been specifically devoted to the analysis of the two speech acts of blessing and cursing in these sermons from a cognitive-pragmatic point of view. This study aims at doing this, focussing on Winthrop’s A Modell of Christian Charity as a case study. I use the framework provided by the Entrenchment and Conventionalization Model – a usage-based and emergentist model of language knowledge and convention – and analyse how the syntagmatic association of the two speech acts contributes to the conformity profile of the sermon. Moreover, I argue that this linguistic lens can add to the understanding of the ‘enargetic’ rhetoric of the text.

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Syntagmatic conformity: Blessings and curses in Winthrop’sChristian Charitie

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La parola difficile. Autobiografia di un italo-americano

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Syntagmatic conformity: Blessings and curses in Winthrop’sChristian Charitie

Syntagmatic conformity: Blessings and curses in Winthrop’sChristian Charitie

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