Historical (socio)pragmatics at present

In this issue
• Preface
  pp. 157–158
• Introduction: Historical (socio)pragmatics at present
  Matylda Włodarczyk & Irma Taavitsainen | pp. 159–174
Articles
• wine min Unferð : Courtly speech and a reconsideration of (supposed) sarcasm in Beowulf
  Graham Williams | pp. 175–194
• The influence of Italian manners on politeness in England, 1550–1620
  Jonathan Culpeper | pp. 195–213
• Discursive (re)construction of “witchcraft” as a community and “witch” as an identity in the eighteenth-century Hungarian witchcraft trial records
  Márton Petykó | pp. 214–234
• “He tells us that”: Strategies of reporting adversarial news in the English Civil War
  Nicholas Brownlees | pp. 235–251
• Meaning-making practices in the history of medical English: A sociopragmatic approach
  Irma Taavitsainen | pp. 252–270
• Initiating contact in institutional correspondence: Historical (socio)pragmatics of Late Modern English literacies
  Matylda Włodarczyk | pp. 271–294
• “Now to my distress”: Shame discourse in eighteenth-century English letters
  Anni Sairio | pp. 295–314
• Context and historical (socio-)pragmatics twenty years on
  Dawn Archer | pp. 315–336

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