Historical Pragmatics

by Jucker, Andreas H.

• ISBN13: 9783110214277
• ISBN10: 311021427X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-30
• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the handbook series	p. v
Preface	p. ix
Introduction
Trends and developments in historical pragmatics	p. 3
Data and methodology
Data in historical pragmatics	p. 33
Historical sociopragmatics	p. 69
Diachrony
Grammaticalization	p. 97
Subjectification and intersubjectification	p. 127
Pragmaticalisation and Discursisation	p. 165
Metaphor and Metonymy	p. 193
Pragmaphilology
Chaucer	p. 219
Shakespeare	p. 247
Micropragmatics
Discourse markers	p. 285
Interjections and expletives	p. 315
Address terms	p. 351
Interactional pragmatics
Speech acts	p. 379
Politeness	p. 419
Controversies	p. 451
Rituals	p. 483
Discourse domains
Religious discourse	p. 523
Scientific discourse	p. 549
News discourse	p. 587
Courtroom discourse	p. 621
Correspondence	p. 651
Literary discourse	p. 679
About the authors	p. 705
Index of subjects	p. 713
Index of names	p. 727
Index of languages	p. 742
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