Dialogues in Diachrony: Celebrating Historical Corpora of Speech-related Texts

Special issue of the Journal of Historical Pragmatics 19:2 (2018)

Editors

Merja Kytö | Uppsala University

Terry Walker | Mid-Sweden University

[Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 19:2] 2018. v, 141 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.19.2

Table of Contents

Introduction

Merja Kytö and Terry Walker | pp. 161–166

Articles

Lexical bundles from one century to the next: An analysis of language input in English teaching texts

Rachel Allan | pp. 167–185
“Heav’n bess you, my Dear”: Using the ESDD corpus to investigate address terms in historical drama dialogue

Linnéa Anglemark | pp. 186–204
Impression management in the Early Modern English courtroom

Dawn Archer | pp. 205–222
Now in the historical courtroom: Users and functions

Claudia Claridge | pp. 223–242
Affirmatives in Early Modern English: Yes, yea and ay

Jonathan Culpeper | pp. 243–264
Beyond speech representation: Describing and evaluating speech in Early Modern English prose fiction

Peter J. Grund | pp. 265–285
Ere and before in English historical corpora, with special reference to the Corpus of English Dialogues

Matti Rissanen | pp. 286–301

Subjects & Metadata

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

BISAC Subject: LAN009010 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative