Susan Fitzmaurice
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 659231 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susan Fitzmaurice |
| NOMBRES | Susan |
| APELLIDO | Fitzmaurice |
| FIRMA | FITZMAURICE S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8804-1987 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Exploring Syntax–Lexical Complexity in Pakistani Legal English
The Pakistani legal system remains one of the most complex discourses for people outside the legal profession to access. Because the law affects the general public in its implementation and execution, the perceived lack of comprehensibility has been challenged by researchers. Hence, the present study explores the comprehensibility of Pakistani legal language using two studies. The first consists of a pilot study to investigate the level of compre…
Introduction
This special issue of the Transactions of the Philological Society presents new computationally assisted research into linguistic meaning in historical English texts. The issue is based upon the talks given at a workshop of the International Conference for English Historical Linguistics (2018, University of Edinburgh). The workshop was conceived in the context of the Linguistic DNA research project (AH/M00614X/1), which required new thinking abou…
From Constellations to Discursive Concepts; or
Volatile concepts
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 semantics, pragmatics, and context. We investigate a high-frequency quad with high co-occurrence strength in EEBO-TCP: world-heaven-earth-power . We conduct…
Embracing Aporia
This article explores the role of play and playfulness—as both methodological and analytical tools—in research on social violence. While play may seem antithetical to both discussions on methods and to studying social violence, we found that actually paying attention to such elements was in fact very productive. This article draws on a series of participatory workshops that engaged theater, dance, and comedy, which were held in Sierra Leone in 20…
Looking for concepts in Early Modern English
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 lexical co-occurrences across the two hundred years of publications in Early English Books Online ( eebo-tcp ; Text Creation Partnership edition), yielding co…
Sincerity and epistolarity
The history of letter-writing in Europe is profoundly multilingual: not just in the obvious sense that Europe is historically multilingual, but also in that the language of letters from different vernacular traditions often shares similar influences.This may be by way of predecessors (e. g. epistolary Latin) or as a result of genre-specific contact across multilingual communities of practice.Thus understanding anything about the features of this …
When natives became Africans
The word native is a key term in nineteenth-century British colonial administrative vocabulary. The question is how it comes to be central to the classification of indigenous subjects in Britain’s southern African possessions in the early twentieth century, and how the word is appropriated by colonial citizens to designate the race of indigenous subjects. To answer the question, I construct a semasiological history of native as a word that has to…
Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England
This volume of essays on 18th-century English grammars and grammar-writers wrests 18th-century prescriptivism from its customary place in the treatment of the complaint tradition in textbooks of the history of the English language and thrusts it into the world of commerce, of book-sellers and hack writers, of periodical readers and critics, and of schools and the education of women. The volume is the outcome of an international workshop held unde…
The sociopragmatics of a lovers’ spat
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 of the Network of Eighteenth-century English Texts (NEET). Extensive qualitative pragmatic study from relevance theoretic and Gricean perspectives have…
Methods in Historical Pragmatics
Methods in Historical Pragmatics (Topics in English Linguistics 52) (Topics in English Linguistics)
Testing the Effects of Regional, Ethnic, and International Dialects of English on Listening Comprehension
It is widely believed that listeners understand some dialects more easily than others, although there is very little research that has rigorously measured the effects. This study investigated whether listeners experience more difficulty with regional, ethnic, and international dialects of English than with Standard American English. The results demonstrated that speaker dialect had a significant effect for both English as a second language (ESL) …
Subjectivity, intersubjectivity and the historical construction of interlocutor stance
This study draws upon the techniques of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and historical pragmatics to provide an account of the ways in which speakers recruit markers of epistemic stance to capture their construction of the attitudes of their interlocutors, addressees, or audience. It then examines the ways in which selected markers lose their subjective force over time, whether expressive of the speaker’s attitude or the speaker’s sense of…
Using corpora to explore linguistic variation
Plethoras of witty verbiage” and “heathen Greek”
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 Steven Berkoff. I demonstrate that short-circuited implicatures (SCIs) as well as conventional and conversational implicatures operate to illuminate com…
Shaping a Drama out of a History
Elizabeth Tanfield Cary dashed off her History of Edward II during the course of a month in 1627 to ‘out-run those weary hours of a deep and sad Passion’. While historical accounts of Edward II were much in evidence during the reigns of James I and his son, no single, authoritative interpretation prevailed. Holinshed’s Chronicles (1577) focuses on the idea of misgovernance; Marlowe’s dramatic rendering, Edward II (1591), directs attention to the …
Servant or patron? Jacob Tonson and the language of deference and respect
Like talking on paper? The pragmatics of courtship and the eighteenth-century familiar letter
Some remarks on the rhetoric of historical pragmatics
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The Great Leveler
Research Article| February 01 2000 THE GREAT LEVELER: THE ROLE OF THE SPOKEN MEDIA IN STYLISTIC SHIFT FROM THE COLLOQUIAL TO THE CONVENTIONAL SUSAN M. FITZMAURICE SUSAN M. FITZMAURICE Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (1): 54–68. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-1-54 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation SUSAN M. FITZMAURICE; THE GREA…
The commerce of language in the pursuit of politeness in eighteenth‐century England
Subjectivity, intersubjectivity and the historical construction of interlocutor stance
This study draws upon the techniques of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and historical pragmatics to provide an account of the ways in which speakers recruit markers of epistemic stance to capture their construction of the attitudes of their interlocutors, addressees, or audience. It then examines the ways in which selected markers lose their subjective force over time, whether expressive of the speaker’s attitude or the speaker’s sense of…
Testing the Effects of Regional, Ethnic, and International Dialects of English on Listening Comprehension
It is widely believed that listeners understand some dialects more easily than others, although there is very little research that has rigorously measured the effects. This study investigated whether listeners experience more difficulty with regional, ethnic, and international dialects of English than with Standard American English. The results demonstrated that speaker dialect had a significant effect for both English as a second language (ESL) …
The commerce of language in the pursuit of politeness in eighteenth‐century England
The Great Leveler
Research Article| February 01 2000 THE GREAT LEVELER: THE ROLE OF THE SPOKEN MEDIA IN STYLISTIC SHIFT FROM THE COLLOQUIAL TO THE CONVENTIONAL SUSAN M. FITZMAURICE SUSAN M. FITZMAURICE Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (1): 54–68. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-1-54 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation SUSAN M. FITZMAURICE; THE GREA…
Volatile concepts
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 semantics, pragmatics, and context. We investigate a high-frequency quad with high co-occurrence strength in EEBO-TCP: world-heaven-earth-power . We conduct…
Embracing Aporia
This article explores the role of play and playfulness—as both methodological and analytical tools—in research on social violence. While play may seem antithetical to both discussions on methods and to studying social violence, we found that actually paying attention to such elements was in fact very productive. This article draws on a series of participatory workshops that engaged theater, dance, and comedy, which were held in Sierra Leone in 20…
Sincerity and epistolarity
The history of letter-writing in Europe is profoundly multilingual: not just in the obvious sense that Europe is historically multilingual, but also in that the language of letters from different vernacular traditions often shares similar influences.This may be by way of predecessors (e. g. epistolary Latin) or as a result of genre-specific contact across multilingual communities of practice.Thus understanding anything about the features of this …
Servant or patron? Jacob Tonson and the language of deference and respect
The commerce of language in the pursuit of politeness in eighteenth‐century England
Like talking on paper? The pragmatics of courtship and the eighteenth-century familiar letter
Some remarks on the rhetoric of historical pragmatics
Preview this article: Some remarks on the rhetoric of historical pragmatics, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/jhp.1.1.03fit-1.gif
The Great Leveler
Research Article| February 01 2000 THE GREAT LEVELER: THE ROLE OF THE SPOKEN MEDIA IN STYLISTIC SHIFT FROM THE COLLOQUIAL TO THE CONVENTIONAL SUSAN M. FITZMAURICE SUSAN M. FITZMAURICE Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (1): 54–68. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-1-54 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation SUSAN M. FITZMAURICE; THE GREA…
Plethoras of witty verbiage” and “heathen Greek”
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 Steven Berkoff. I demonstrate that short-circuited implicatures (SCIs) as well as conventional and conversational implicatures operate to illuminate com…
Shaping a Drama out of a History
Elizabeth Tanfield Cary dashed off her History of Edward II during the course of a month in 1627 to ‘out-run those weary hours of a deep and sad Passion’. While historical accounts of Edward II were much in evidence during the reigns of James I and his son, no single, authoritative interpretation prevailed. Holinshed’s Chronicles (1577) focuses on the idea of misgovernance; Marlowe’s dramatic rendering, Edward II (1591), directs attention to the …
Servant or patron? Jacob Tonson and the language of deference and respect
Using corpora to explore linguistic variation
Subjectivity, intersubjectivity and the historical construction of interlocutor stance
This study draws upon the techniques of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and historical pragmatics to provide an account of the ways in which speakers recruit markers of epistemic stance to capture their construction of the attitudes of their interlocutors, addressees, or audience. It then examines the ways in which selected markers lose their subjective force over time, whether expressive of the speaker’s attitude or the speaker’s sense of…
Testing the Effects of Regional, Ethnic, and International Dialects of English on Listening Comprehension
It is widely believed that listeners understand some dialects more easily than others, although there is very little research that has rigorously measured the effects. This study investigated whether listeners experience more difficulty with regional, ethnic, and international dialects of English than with Standard American English. The results demonstrated that speaker dialect had a significant effect for both English as a second language (ESL) …
Methods in Historical Pragmatics (Topics in English Linguistics 52) (Topics in English Linguistics)
Methods in Historical Pragmatics
The sociopragmatics of a lovers’ spat
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 of the Network of Eighteenth-century English Texts (NEET). Extensive qualitative pragmatic study from relevance theoretic and Gricean perspectives have…
Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England
This volume of essays on 18th-century English grammars and grammar-writers wrests 18th-century prescriptivism from its customary place in the treatment of the complaint tradition in textbooks of the history of the English language and thrusts it into the world of commerce, of book-sellers and hack writers, of periodical readers and critics, and of schools and the education of women. The volume is the outcome of an international workshop held unde…
When natives became Africans
The word native is a key term in nineteenth-century British colonial administrative vocabulary. The question is how it comes to be central to the classification of indigenous subjects in Britain’s southern African possessions in the early twentieth century, and how the word is appropriated by colonial citizens to designate the race of indigenous subjects. To answer the question, I construct a semasiological history of native as a word that has to…
Sincerity and epistolarity
The history of letter-writing in Europe is profoundly multilingual: not just in the obvious sense that Europe is historically multilingual, but also in that the language of letters from different vernacular traditions often shares similar influences.This may be by way of predecessors (e. g. epistolary Latin) or as a result of genre-specific contact across multilingual communities of practice.Thus understanding anything about the features of this …
Looking for concepts in Early Modern English
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 lexical co-occurrences across the two hundred years of publications in Early English Books Online ( eebo-tcp ; Text Creation Partnership edition), yielding co…
Introduction
This special issue of the Transactions of the Philological Society presents new computationally assisted research into linguistic meaning in historical English texts. The issue is based upon the talks given at a workshop of the International Conference for English Historical Linguistics (2018, University of Edinburgh). The workshop was conceived in the context of the Linguistic DNA research project (AH/M00614X/1), which required new thinking abou…
From Constellations to Discursive Concepts; or
Volatile concepts
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 semantics, pragmatics, and context. We investigate a high-frequency quad with high co-occurrence strength in EEBO-TCP: world-heaven-earth-power . We conduct…
Embracing Aporia
This article explores the role of play and playfulness—as both methodological and analytical tools—in research on social violence. While play may seem antithetical to both discussions on methods and to studying social violence, we found that actually paying attention to such elements was in fact very productive. This article draws on a series of participatory workshops that engaged theater, dance, and comedy, which were held in Sierra Leone in 20…
Exploring Syntax–Lexical Complexity in Pakistani Legal English
The Pakistani legal system remains one of the most complex discourses for people outside the legal profession to access. Because the law affects the general public in its implementation and execution, the perceived lack of comprehensibility has been challenged by researchers. Hence, the present study explores the comprehensibility of Pakistani legal language using two studies. The first consists of a pilot study to investigate the level of compre…
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