Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Special issue JHP 19:2
• “But it is not prov’d”: A sociopragmatic study of the discourse marker but in the Early Modern English courtroom
  Ursula Lutzky | pp. 1–19
Articles
• A corpus-based study of composite predicates in Early Modern English dialogues
  Ying Wang | pp. 20–50
• Chancery norms before Chancery English? Templates in royal writs from Alfred the Great to William the Conqueror
  Olga Timofeeva | pp. 51–77
• Conceptualisations of xoshbaxti (‘happiness / prosperity’) and baxt (‘fate / luck’) in Persian
  Farzad Sharifian & Mehri Bagheri | pp. 78–95
• Kinship or friendship? The word cousin as a term of address for non-relatives in Middle English
  Martina Häcker | pp. 96–131
• Doing Power Threatening Acts (PTAs) in ancient China: An empirical study of Chinese jian discourse
  Xingchen Shen & Xinren Chen | pp. 132–156
Book reviews
• Kate Beeching. 2016. Pragmatic Markers in British English: Meaning in Social Interaction
  Reviewed by Gabriella Mazzon | pp. 157–161
• James Daybell & Andrew Gordon (eds). 2016. Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690
  Reviewed by Helen Newsome | pp. 162–168

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