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Author(s): Manfred Gorlach
ISBN(s): 9783110173727, 3110173727
Edition: Reprint 2013 ed.
File Details: PDF, 9.58 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 3110173727

ISBN 13: 978-3110173727 

Author: Manfred Gorlach

The history of modern European languages has been largely determined by the range of functions they have acquired, particularly after 1500. This development necessitated a notable expansion of their syntax and lexis, but is most characteristically reflected in the conventionalization of text types.

Starting from the German concept of Textsorte as developed from the 1960s onwards, the present account is a first comprehensive attempt at charting the field for the history and present-day situation of the English language. In text types, a designation is linked with a more or less stable form which guides the writer’s production as well as the reader’s expectation, permitting one to recognize straightforward uses as well as deliberate misuses. Some two thousand of such designations are here listed with minimal definitions and dates for first occurrences. The discussion then concentrates on selected types, which are seen as especially illustrative for English: book dedications, cooking recipes, advertisements, church hymns, lexical entries, and jokes. Their functions and development over time are treated in correlation with their specific linguistic characteristics and adaptations to different period styles and social changes in the readership. The functional range of text types in traditions outside England and the consequences of the export of English categories are exemplified by the history of Scots/Scottish English and of English in India. The arguments are accompanied by a lavish supply of textual excerpts and more than fifty pages of facsimiles, which are especially relevant for insights derived from typographical features. A full bibliography and indices are provided at the end.

The book will prove useful for decisions on the constitution of representative text corpora and stimulate research into a greater number of individual text types as well as contrastive analyses at least among European languages.

Table of contents:

1 Preface
2 A history of text types: A componential analysis
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Methods of classification
2.3 The inventory of text types and distinctive features
2.4 Procedure
2.5 Outlook
2.6 An alphabetical list of English text types
2.7 Analysis
2.8 A list of Old English text types
3 Text types and the linguistic history of modern English
3.1 Introductory
3.2 The concept of text types
3.3 Exemplification: the dedicatory epistle
3.4 Interpretation: factors conditioning the form of dedications
3.5 Linguistic features characteristic of dedications
3.6 Conclusion
4 Text types and language history: the cooking recipe
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The cooking recipe
4.3 The development after 1500
4.4 Cross-cultural comparisons
4.5 Conclusions
5 A linguistic history of advertising
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Linguistic analysis: the 18th century
5.3 The 19th century
5.4 Changes in advertising style
5.5 A text type exported
5.6 Conclusion
6 The church hymn
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The historical foundations of the text type
6.3 The hymn as a text type
7 Lexical entries
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Entries in monolingual dictionaries of modern English
8 Linguistic aspects of jokes
8.1 Approaching the topic
8.2 Types of jokes
8.3 Conclusion
9 Text types and the history of Scots
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Formal texts
9.3 Informal language
9.4 Literary texts
9.5 Conclusion
10 Text types and Indian English
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Newspaper reports and leaders
10.3 Book announcements and reviews
10.4 Dedications, forewords and endpieces in scholarly books
10.5 Scholarly expository prose
10.6 Advertisements of various types
10.7 Obituaries
10.8 Letters and essays
10.9 Cooking recipes
10.10 The language of literature
10.11 Conclusion
Facsimiles
Bibliography
Index of persons
Index of topics, terms, places and anonymous works
Index of words and phrases

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