Historical Pragmatics
  1. 756 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

The Handbook of Historical Pragmatics provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in pragmatics devoted to a diachronic study of language use and human interaction in context. It covers all areas of historical pragmatics from grammaticalization theory to pragmatic entities, such as discourse markers, speech acts and politeness to individual discourse domains from scientific writing to literary discourse. Each contribution, written by a leading specialist, gives a succinct, representative and up-to-date overview of research questions, theories, methods and recent developments in the field.

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Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Table of contents
  3. 1. Trends and developments in historical pragmatics
  4. 2. Data in historical pragmatics
  5. 3. Historical sociopragmatics
  6. 4. Grammaticalization
  7. 5. Subjectification and intersubjectification
  8. 6. Pragmaticalisation and Discursisation
  9. 7. Metaphor and metonymy
  10. 8. Chaucer
  11. 9. Shakespeare
  12. 10. Discourse Markers
  13. 11. Interjections and expletives
  14. 12. Terms of address
  15. 13. Speech Acts
  16. 14. Politeness
  17. 15. Controversies
  18. 16. Rituals
  19. 17. Religious discourse
  20. 18. Scientific discourse
  21. 19. News discourse
  22. 20. Courtroom discourse
  23. 21. Correspondence
  24. 22. Literary discourse
  25. About the authors
  26. Backmatter

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