Pragmatics on the Page

Carroll, Ruth; Peikola, Matti; Salmi, Hanna; Varila, Mari-Liisa; Skaffari, Janne; Hiltunen, Risto

doi:10.1080/13825577.2013.755006

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“…83 They argue, along similar lines to book historians and literary scholars like Genette, that all design ele ments -including images -convey signals to readers on how to use and interpret a 80 Information design studies looks more broadly at any type of media that conveys information, including books. Studies that combine ideas from present-day information design and communication studies with early modern book history include Bellingradt 2019;Silva 2019;Armstrong 2015;Carroll et al 2013;Mak 2011. Studies addressing questions of visual communication and image-text relations primarily for post-1900 media include Bateman 2014;Stöckl 2011;Holsanova 2014;Kress and Van Leeuwen 2006;Martinec and Salway 2005;Stöckl 2004;Marsh andWhite 2003.…”

Section: Visual Rhetoric As An Interpretive Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Woodcuts as Reading Guides

Leerdam

2023

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In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Low Countries saw the rise of a lively market for practical and instructive books that targeted non-specialist readers. This study shows how woodcuts in vernacular books on medicine and astrology fulfilled important rhetorical functions in knowledge communication. These images guided readers’ perceptions of the organisation, visualisation, and reliability of knowledge. Andrea van Leerdam uncovers the assumptions and intentions of book producers to which images testify, and shows how actual readers engaged with these illustrated books. Drawing on insights from the field of information design studies, she scrutinises the books’ material characteristics, including their lay-outs and traces of use, to shed light on the habits and interests of early modern readers. She situates these works in a culture where medicine and astrology were closely interwoven in daily life and where both book producers and readers were exploring the potential of images.

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Section: Visual Rhetoric As An Interpretive Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Woodcuts as Reading Guides

Leerdam

2023

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“…Studies have focused on paratextual features such as the layout of manuscript or printed pages, the use of space, illustrations and the choice of script or type, and how these visual elements carried meanings and were used by text producers with their readers in mind (e.g. Carroll et al, 2013, Suhr, 2011, Williams, 2013, see also contributions in Pahta and Jucker, 2011). Moreover, linguistic features have been analysed by considering the scribal context.…”

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confidence: 99%

Historical Sociopragmatics

2011

Benjamins Current Topics

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Historical sociopragmatics studies the social dimension of language use from a historical perspective. Like historical pragmatics in general, it must rely on written data (except for the very recent past), which poses some specific analytical challenges. In this contribution, we show how approaches to these challenges have developed in recent years. The research focus in historical sociopragmatics has followed the trend in sociopragmatics, where the earlier focus on a mapping between specific linguistic forms and specific pragmatic functions is increasingly extended to a wider consideration of the discursive nature of pragmatic entities whose function only emerges in the interaction between conversational partners. We illustrate such a discursive approach with an analysis of a sequence of letters from the Breadalbane Collection, 1548-83, in which leading members of a Scottish Highland clan negotiate their relationships, their respective roles and the wider impact of events that led to growing tensions between them.

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“…Discourse as speech activity occurring in the specific historical context and reflecting societial needs, beliefs and values has lately been considered in diachronic perspective, which allows one to reveal the complex and historically variable nature of human communication. Modeling of discourse in historical perspective that focuses on the discourse evolution that reveals itself in diachronic tendencies, reflecting historical variability of language structures represented in discursive forms, is considered to be an advancement in discourse studies [1][2][3][4][5]. However, historical discourse analysis seeks to investigate changes in discursive practices not only in social-pragmatic perspective, but also in relation to changes in knowledge formats and styles of thinking.…”

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Corpus-Based Study of Discursive Representation of ‘Other’ in Diachronic Perspective

Kochetova

Plavina

2018

SHS Web Conf.

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Based on the corpus methodology the paper presents the results of diachronic analysis of the discursive representation of ‘Other’ by comparing two corpora, one comprising texts of travelogues dating back to the end of the 19th century and the corpus of present day blogs on travel. The key word tool of LancBox64 software allowed extracting the list of key words, from which lexemes that represent ‘Other’ were selected and categorized. The sketch tool was used to build word sketches for the lexemes identified to revel deffereces in patterns of meaning. The data obtained allowed us to contrast and compare the means of discursive representation of ‘Other’ in diachronic perspective, describe discursive strategies and determine historical and cultural patterns reflected in the discourse practice. Comparative analysis of statistical data in the periods under study revealed dynamic changes that are manifested in the use of peculiar nominative means that represent categories of social actors; employment of attributive and verbal evaluative lexemes that are used for discursive construing of other cultural society representatives in the consciousness of Western people.

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Pragmatics on the Page

Cited by 51 publications

References 14 publications

Woodcuts as Reading Guides

Woodcuts as Reading Guides

Historical Sociopragmatics

Corpus-Based Study of Discursive Representation of ‘Other’ in Diachronic Perspective

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