The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe

Cover -- Table Of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Where Is Medieval Pragmatics? -- 1. Medieval Pragmatics: Philosophical And Grammatical Contexts -- Three Terms And A Theory -- Roger Bacon's Semiotics And Pragmatics -- Peter (of) John Olivi: Pragmatics And The Will To Speak -- 2. Interjections: Does Affect Have Grammar? -- 3. Allas Context -- Allas: A Case For Context -- 4. Alisoun's Giggle, Or The Miller Does Pragmatics -- Does A Giggle Mean? -- Impoliteness, Hedging, And Textual Pragmatics -- Polysemy, Bullseyes, Misfires, Or How Narrative Escapes Intention Centrifugal Narrative Contracts -- 5. How Heretics Talk, According To Bernard Gui And William Thorpe -- Pragmatic Talk, Pragmatic Action -- Bernard Gui's Conversation Analysis And Institutional Discourse -- William Thorpe's Relationship Pragmatics -- 6. Margery Kempe's Strategic Vague Language -- Cooperate Or Else -- Vaguing Pragmatics -- Kempe Comes To The Archbishop -- Kempe Tells A Tale -- One More Thing -- Bibliography -- Index -- List Of Images And Tables -- Images -- Image 6.1 Oak Pulpit -- Image 6.2 Luther, Passional Christi Und Antichristi (wittenberg, 1521), Pp. 18-19 -- Tables Table 3.1 Allas In Chaucer's Knight's Tale -- Table 3.2 Allas In Chaucer's Miller's Tale Mark Amsler. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.