A Study of Vocatives in Early Modern ‘Spoken' English : An Historical-Pragmatic Approach

我的研究一直致力于探索早期现代英语时期使用的呼格的语言特性。具体来说，我主要关注的是什么称呼语被使用，以及它们是如何在早期现代英语的“绅士”喜剧使用。当然，由于没有这一时期的真实记录数据，我调查了一组以呼唤为中心的社会语用语料库中的戏剧文本。在研究方法上，笔者采用语料库研究方法，从历史语用学的角度，将联合收割机定量分析与定性分析相结合。因此，我的研究本质上是跨学科的，因为它围绕着几个语言学领域，即历史语言学，语用学，文体学，社会语言学，以及语料库语言学。在我的论文中，编写一个注释语料库本身既是一个最终产品，也是数据。

My research has been devoted to an exploration of the linguistic properties of vocatives used in the Early Modern English period. Specifically, my primary concerns are what vocatives were used and how they were used in Early Modern English ‘gentry' comedies. As there are of course no authentic recorded data from the period, I have investigated a collection of drama texts in the Vocative-Focussed Socio-Pragmatic Corpus. By doing so, I hope to shed some light on the use of vocatives in the Early Modern English period.Methodologically, I take a corpus-based approach, and combine quantitative and qualitative analyses in a historical pragmatic perspective. As a consequence, my research is interdisciplinary in nature in that it pivots on several linguistic fields, i.e.historical linguistics, pragmatics, stylistics, sociolinguistics, as well as corpus linguistics. In my thesis, compiling an annotated corpus is both an end product in itself as well as data.