Richard Johnson
A case of 18th-century pragmatics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3955361 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anat Biletzki (Tel Aviv University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 281-299 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historiographia Linguistica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0302-5160 • E-ISSN: 1569-9781 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/hl.18.2-3.03bil |
| OpenAlex | W2028332019 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
The grammarians of 16th, 17th, and 18th century England were, in the main, conservative, but the elements of continuity and change characteristic of these times make for a strange blend of uniformity and variety in the grammars they produced. Of all the grammatical categories, the treatment ofmoodis most hesitant, variable, and problematic. Building on this confusion, and taking a cue from the modern discussion of mood which lends itself to pragmatic analysis, the paper asks about pragmatics in the treatment of mood in earlier periods. In this it is claimed that although numerous hints and inklings provide evidence of some pragmatic tendencies, only one grammarian, Richard Johnson, in theGrammatical Commentariesof 1706, comes close to an explicit rendering of moods akin to speech acts and based on language use. His theory of moods is presented and analyzed; it is seen to formulate theoretical, pragmatic principles for moods and, furthermore, to apply such principles in the detailed analysis of specific moods. Johnson emerges as unique in his time for his treatment of moods, but obviously still limited by its conceptual frameworks
Confusion · Epistemology · Linguistics · Mood · Pragmatics · Psychoanalysis · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
'An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language' (1668)
Philosophical Investigations
Mood Implicatures
Seventeenth-Century Punctuation Theory
On the History of Some Problems of English Grammar before 1800
Grammatical Theory in Western Europe, 1500-1700
Semantic and pragmatic characterizability of linguistic usage
Mood and language-game
Studies in the History of Ancient Linguistics Ii Stoic and Peripatetic Kinds of Speech Act and the Distinction of Grammatical Moods
The development of English grammatical theory 1587-1737
Pragmatics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 1996 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |