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The economics academic lecture in the nineteenth century

Marshall's Lectures to Women

Abstract

This study investigates the economics lecture from a historical discursive perspective, focusing on the case of Marshall's lectures in Cambridge in 1873. The historical study of academic genres has primarily dealt with the research article and the textbook, while the academic lecture has been studied nearly exclusively from a pedagogical angle in spite of the fact that it is a genre perfectly suited to shed light on the lecturer/student relationship and ways of disseminating knowledge over time. The present analysis shows that the lecturer's persona is textually constructed through the use of interactional and evaluative discursive strategies, which include metadiscursive devices used to explicitly engage students' attention or to signal the lecturer's attitude to both the audience and the content of the lecture.

Abstract

This study investigates the economics lecture from a historical discursive perspective, focusing on the case of Marshall's lectures in Cambridge in 1873. The historical study of academic genres has primarily dealt with the research article and the textbook, while the academic lecture has been studied nearly exclusively from a pedagogical angle in spite of the fact that it is a genre perfectly suited to shed light on the lecturer/student relationship and ways of disseminating knowledge over time. The present analysis shows that the lecturer's persona is textually constructed through the use of interactional and evaluative discursive strategies, which include metadiscursive devices used to explicitly engage students' attention or to signal the lecturer's attitude to both the audience and the content of the lecture.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. A frame for windows 1
  5. Part I. Discourse in the public sphere
  6. News discourse 7
  7. Advertising discourse in eighteenth-century English newspapers 23
  8. Presidential inaugural addresses 39
  9. Freedom of speech at stake 53
  10. Text-initiating strategies in eighteenth-century newspaper headlines 65
  11. Part II. Science and academia
  12. Patterns of agentivity and narrativity in early science discourse 83
  13. The economics academic lecture in the nineteenth century 95
  14. Contesting authorities 109
  15. Personal pronouns in argumentation 123
  16. Criticism under scrutiny 143
  17. The underlying pattern of the Renaissance botanical genre pinax 161
  18. Genres and the appropriation of science 179
  19. Part III. Letters and litterature
  20. Chaucer's narrators and audiences 199
  21. Discourse on a par with syntax, or the effects of the linguistic organisation of letters on the diachronic characterisation of the text type 215
  22. Verba sic spernit mea 237
  23. Part IV. Discourse and pragmatics
  24. ‘Ther been thinges thre, the whiche thynges troublen al this erthe’ 259
  25. Processes underlying the development of pragmatic markers 279
  26. From certainty to doubt 301
  27. Politeness as a distancing device in the passive and in indefinite pronouns 319
  28. Part V. Language contact and discourse
  29. Discourse features of code-switching in legal reports in late medieval England 343
  30. Focusing strategies in Old French and Old Irish 353
  31. Medieval mixed-language business discourse and the rise of Standard English 381
  32. Author Index 401
  33. Subject Index 409
Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past
This chapter is in the book Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.134.11del

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. A frame for windows 1
  5. Part I. Discourse in the public sphere
  6. News discourse 7
  7. Advertising discourse in eighteenth-century English newspapers 23
  8. Presidential inaugural addresses 39
  9. Freedom of speech at stake 53
  10. Text-initiating strategies in eighteenth-century newspaper headlines 65
  11. Part II. Science and academia
  12. Patterns of agentivity and narrativity in early science discourse 83
  13. The economics academic lecture in the nineteenth century 95
  14. Contesting authorities 109
  15. Personal pronouns in argumentation 123
  16. Criticism under scrutiny 143
  17. The underlying pattern of the Renaissance botanical genre pinax 161
  18. Genres and the appropriation of science 179
  19. Part III. Letters and litterature
  20. Chaucer's narrators and audiences 199
  21. Discourse on a par with syntax, or the effects of the linguistic organisation of letters on the diachronic characterisation of the text type 215
  22. Verba sic spernit mea 237
  23. Part IV. Discourse and pragmatics
  24. ‘Ther been thinges thre, the whiche thynges troublen al this erthe’ 259
  25. Processes underlying the development of pragmatic markers 279
  26. From certainty to doubt 301
  27. Politeness as a distancing device in the passive and in indefinite pronouns 319
  28. Part V. Language contact and discourse
  29. Discourse features of code-switching in legal reports in late medieval England 343
  30. Focusing strategies in Old French and Old Irish 353
  31. Medieval mixed-language business discourse and the rise of Standard English 381
  32. Author Index 401
  33. Subject Index 409
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