English Historical Pragmatics / / Andreas Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen.

Your guide to historical pragmatics in English studiesHistorical pragmatics is an emerging branch within linguistics and one of the most versatile fields in the historical study of English. It is placed at the intersection between pragmatics, historical linguistics and neighbouring disciplines like...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2013
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced : ETELAA
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of 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