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Historical Pragmatics /

Historical Pragmatics / ed. by Andreas H. Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen. - 1 online resource (743 p.) - Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS] ; 8 .

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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9783110214277 9783110214284

10.1515/9783110214284 doi


Discourse analysis--Grammar, Historical.
Discourse analysis.
English language--Grammar, Historical.
Pragmatics.
Historical Linguistics.
Pragmatics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

PE1101 / .H487 2010eb

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