Historical (socio)pragmatics at present
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 18:2 (2017)
[Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 18:2] 2017. v, 180 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Prefacepp. 157–158
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Introduction: Historical (socio)pragmatics at presentMatylda Włodarczyk and Irma Taavitsainen | pp. 159–174
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wine min Unferð : Courtly speech and a reconsideration of (supposed) sarcasm in BeowulfGraham Williams | pp. 175–194
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The influence of Italian manners on politeness in England, 1550–1620Jonathan Culpeper | pp. 195–213
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Discursive (re)construction of “witchcraft” as a community and “witch” as an identity in the eighteenth-century Hungarian witchcraft trial recordsMárton Petykó | pp. 214–234
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“He tells us that”: Strategies of reporting adversarial news in the English Civil WarNicholas Brownlees | pp. 235–251
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Meaning-making practices in the history of medical English: A sociopragmatic approachIrma Taavitsainen | pp. 252–270
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Initiating contact in institutional correspondence: Historical (socio)pragmatics of Late Modern English literaciesMatylda Włodarczyk | pp. 271–294
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“Now to my distress”: Shame discourse in eighteenth-century English lettersAnni Sairio | pp. 295–314
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Context and historical (socio-)pragmatics twenty years onDawn Archer | pp. 315–336
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Articles
Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009010 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative