Andreas H. Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen

English Historical Pragmatics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A guide to historical pragmatics in English studies. It gives students a grounding in historical pragmatics and teaches the methodology needed to analyse language in social, cultural and historical contexts. It provides insights into the analysis of discourse markers, interjections, terms of address and speech acts.

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780748644681
• ISBN-10: 0748644687
• Artikelnr.: 36844266

Autorenporträt

Andreas H. Jucker is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Zurich in Switzerland

Inhaltsangabe

1 Historical pragmatics: Communicative patterns of the past
2 Data in historical pragmatics: The widening perspectives of the digital
era
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.