Genre and literacies: Historical (socio)pragmatics of the 1820 settler petition

Włodarczyk, Matylda

Genre and literacies: Historical (socio)pragmatics of the 1820 settler petition

dc.contributor.author	Włodarczyk, Matylda
dc.date.accessioned	2017-04-28T08:21:35Z
dc.date.available	2017-04-28T08:21:35Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description.abstract	In the history of English, the Late Modern period offers a chance to observe rapid developments in petitioning practices as growing literacy rates open up potential access to the contemporary models of written request-making. Still the nature of Late Modern literacies complicates the attempts at written composition and participation in literacy cultures. In addition, spatial and social mobility that characterise European communities in the period not only generate more demand for active literacy, but also entail new factors, expectations and constraints on written communication. Thus the ways in which the Late Modern literacies may be elucidated and accessed through the study of petitions remain at the core of this investigation. The book embarks upon a (socio)pragmatic study of two sets of institutional correspondence surviving in connection to the British government colonisation scheme of the Cape of Good Hope, the 1820 settlement. The data, referred to as the candidate (1819) and colonial collections (1820-25), offer a unique opportunity to observe genre development over a relatively short span of time, to identify the specific aspects of genre change and to connect these to the discourse and language external context. The study focuses on the structural models of petition and issues of authorship, as well as variability of punctuation and aspects of spelling and morpho-syntax in the letters. The analysis makes use of specific digital methodologies, such as the n-gram analysis, as well as purely qualitative methods.	pl_PL
dc.identifier.citation	Włodarczyk Matylda. Genre and literacies: Historical (socio)pragmatics of the 1820 settler petition. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. Poznań 2016. Seria Filologia Angielska nr 51. Pp. 393, 16 Figs., 50 Tabs.	pl_PL
dc.identifier.isbn	978-83-232-3068-7
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10593/17670
dc.language.iso	eng	pl_PL
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM	pl_PL
dc.relation.ispartofseries	FILOLOGIA ANGIELSKA;nr 51
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	pl_PL
dc.subject	Late Modern English	pl_PL
dc.subject	petition	pl_PL
dc.subject	genre	pl_PL
dc.subject	literacy	pl_PL
dc.subject	historical (socio)pragmatics	pl_PL
dc.title	Genre and literacies: Historical (socio)pragmatics of the 1820 settler petition	pl_PL
dc.type	Książka	pl_PL