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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Information

Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

Year

2010

ISBN

9783110214284

Edition

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Linguistics

Index

Languages & Linguistics

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