Methods in Historical Pragmatics / / ed. by Susan M. Fitzmaurice, Irma Taavitsainen.
This volume represents a timely collective review and assessment of what it is we do when we do English historical pragmatics or historical discourse analysis. The context for the volume is a critical assessment of the assumptions and practices defining the body of research conducted on the history...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Historical pragmatics: What it is and how to do
- it
- The development of I mean: Implications for the
- study of historical pragmatics
- Soþlice, forsoothe, truly – communicative
- principles and invited inferences in the history of truthintensifying
- adverbs in English
- Speech act verbs and speech acts in the history of
- English
- Text types and the methodology of diachronic speech
- act analysis
- A pragmatics for interpreting Shakespeare´s Sonnets
- 1 to 20: Dialogue scripts and Erasmian intertexts
- Developing a more detailed picture of the English
- courtroom (1640–1760): Data and methodological issues facing historical
- pragmatics
- What do you lacke? what is it you buy? Early Modern
- English service encounters
- Letters as narrative: Narrative patterns and
- episode structure in early letters, 1400 to 1650
- Historical linguistics, literary interpretation,
- and the romances of Margaret Cavendish
- Discoursal aspects of the Legends of Holy Women by
- Osbern Bokenham
- Backmatter