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Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Volume 27, Issue 2 (2026)

Expected January 2027. ca. 160 pp.

Publishing status: In production

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

Table of Contents

This is a provisional table of contents, and subject to changes.

Offers in the Old Saxon Hêliand: Illocutionary force, recipient agency and speech representation Valentina Concu	139–166
The shift from ‘remain’ to ‘become’: Tracing the semantic change of blive and bliva in Danish and Swedish Marta Woznicka and Dominika Skrzypek	167–206
Interpreting literalised rituals as a genre: The case of Shijing (‘ The Book of Odes ’) Dániel Z. Kádár, Yafeng Liu, Juliane House and Fengguang Liu	207–234
Functional affinity between conjunction and disjunction: Historical crossover from ‘and’ to ‘or’ in Korean Minju Kim	235–267
Review of Hansen & Waltereit (2025): Cyclic Change in Grammar and Discourse Guangyan Zhu and Shuqiong Wu	268–275

Subjects and metadata

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009010: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative