- 224 pages
- English
- PDF
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English Historical Pragmatics
About this book
Historical pragmatics is placed at the intersection between pragmatics, historical linguistics and neighbouring disciplines like (historical) sociolinguistics.This book introduces this field to advanced linguistic students coming to the topic for the first time.
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Yes, you can access English Historical Pragmatics by Andreas Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Imprint
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- To readers
- 1 Historical pragmatics: Communicative patterns of the past
- 2 The widening perspectives of the digital era: Data in historical pragmatics
- 3 Excavating usage patterns: Methods in historical pragmatics
- 4 ‘Lo, which a greet thyng is affeccioun!’: Discourse markers and interjections
- 5 ‘For I thou thee, thou Traitor’: Terms of address
- 6 ‘No one can flatter so prettily as you do’: Speech acts
- 7 ‘For your curteisie’: Forms of politeness and impoliteness
- 8 The pragmatics of language change: Grammaticalisation and pragmaticalisation
- 9 ‘Take a pounde of sugir and halfe a pounde of tendir roses lyues . . .’: Genres and text types
- 10 ‘I pray thee friend Humfrey, what is phisicke?’: Scientific and medical discourse
- 11 ‘By letters from Riga we have advice’: Historical news discourse
- 12 ‘Fire! Help! Sir Walter has studied till his Head’s on fire’: Narrative patterns and historical pragmatics
- Corpora and other electronic data sources
- References
- Index