Introduction to rethinking perspectives

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. List of contributors XI
5. Introducing transhistorical approaches to digital language practices 1
6. Section 1: Rethinking Perspectives
7. Introduction to rethinking perspectives 14
8. 1 The rise of the Pragmatic Web: Implications for rethinking meaning and interaction 17
9. 2 Interpreting “historicisation” in the digital context: On the interface of diachronic and synchronic pragmatics 38
10. 3 Spelling in context: A transhistorical pragmatic perspective on orthographic practices in English 55
11. 4 Reflections on historicity, technology and the implications for method in (historical) pragmatics 80
12. Section 2: Historicizing Discourses
13. Introduction to historicising discourses 86
14. 5 Towards a transhistorical approach to analysing discourse about and in motion 89
15. 6 “New” media and self-fashioning: The construction of a political persona by Elizabeth I and Donald Trump 112
16. 7 From Rest in Peace to #RIP: Tracing shifts in the language of mourning 129
17. 8 Digital literacies and the long history of the academic article 149
18. 9 Reflections on historicizing discourses: Connections, linkages, continuities 164
19. Section 3: Media Trajectories
20. Introduction to media trajectories 170
21. 10 Unstable content, remediated layout: Urban laws in Scotland through manuscript and print 173
22. 11 Visual pragmatics of an early modern book: Printers’ paratextual choices in the editions of The School of Vertue 199
23. 12 Paratextual presentation of Christopher St German’s Doctor and Student 1528–1886 232
24. 13 Reflections on visuality and textual reception 253
25. Section 4: New to Old
26. Introduction to new to old 258
27. 14 Information design and information structure in the Middle English prose Brut 261
28. 15 Disruptive practice: Multimodality, innovation and standardisation from the medieval to the digital text 281
29. 16 “It makes it more real”: A comparative analysis of Twitter use in live blogs and quotations in older news media from a reader response perspective 306
30. 17 New methods, old data: Using digital technologies to explore nineteenth century letter writing practices 329
31. 18 Transhistoricizing multimodality: Reflections on the how-to 359
32. Postscript: You say you want a revolution? Histories and futures of researching the digital, a view from the south 363
33. Index 377