Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Volume 11, Issue 2 (2010)

2010. iv, 170 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.11.2

Table of Contents

Articles
“trobled wth a tedious discours” Sincerity, sarcasm and seriousness in the letters of Maria Thynne, c. 1601–1610 Graham T. Williams	169–193
Supplica la mia parvidade…: Petitions in medieval society — a matter of ritualised or first reflexive politeness? Gudrun Held	194–218
Directive speech acts: A cross-generic diachronic study Lilo Moessner	219–249
Pleas from the New World: The structure of directive head acts in Colonial Spanish familiar letters Jeremy King	250–276
Complexity in national legislation of the Early Modern English period Anu Lehto	277–300
Reviews
Review of Pablé (2007): The Construction of a Period Dialect: The Language of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and its Sources Reviewed by Matti Rissanen	301–303
Review of Walker (2007): Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues: Trials, Depositions, and Drama Comedy Reviewed by Minna Nevala	304–307
Review of Taavitsainen, Härmä & Korhonen (2006): Dialogic Language Use / Dimensions du dialogisme / Dialogischer Sprachgebrauch Reviewed by Angela Schrott	308–314
Review of Sadler (2007): Grammar in Use across Time and Space. Deconstructing the Japanese ‘Dative Subject’ Construction Reviewed by Minako Nakayasu	315–318
Review of Suzuki (2006): Emotive Communication in Japanese Reviewed by Atsuko Honda	319–324
Review of Hansen (2008): Particles at the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface: Synchronic and Diachronic Issues. A Study with Special Reference to the French Phasal Adverbs Reviewed by Gudrun Held	325–329
Review of Nurmi, Nevala & Palander-Collin (2009): The Language of Daily Life in England (1400-1800) Reviewed by Laura Wright	330–335

Subjects

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Historical linguistics