著者

江口 豊

出版者

北海道大学大学院国際広報メディア・観光学院

雑誌

国際広報メディア・観光学ジャーナル

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, pp.103-120, 2019-10-24

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The pamphlet is one type of printed material other than books, as well as a printed act of persuasion. Newspapers remained till the 1680s as an information tool, i.e. they informed society about different events in the world but did not comment on them. But a society basically needs opportunities or channels to express its own judgments and assessments, especially of important objects. Further, we usually try to share these through personal and/or public communication. In this way, the pamphlet developed in the German society of the 16th century as a printed medium of persuasion. The distinguishable functions of newspapers and pamphlets four centuries ago resembles the distribution of various types of speech acts categorized by linguistic pragmatics. We always do various communicative acts with a text.