Letter Writing

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5:2 (2004)

Editors

Terttu Nevalainen | University of Helsinki

Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen | University of Helsinki

[Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 5:2] 2004. iv, 181 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.5.2

Table of Contents

Articles
Introduction Terttu Nevalainen	181–191
Power and politeness: Languages and salutation formulas in correspondence between Sweden and the German Hanse Seija Tiisala	193–206
Letters: A new approach to text typology Alexander Bergs	207–227
Text in context: A critical discourse analysis approach to Margaret Paston Johanna L. Wood	229–254
Intertextual networks in the correspondence of Lady Katherine Paston Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen	255–269
Inside and out: Forms of address in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century letters Minna Nevala	271–296
Yours sincerely and yours affectionately: On the origin and development of two positive politeness markers Annemieke Bijkerk	297–311
“The pleasure of receiving your favour” The colonial exchange in eighteenth-century natural history Ellen Valle	313–336
Book Reviews
Review of Fitzmaurice (2002): The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English: A Pragmatic Approach Reviewed by Monika Fludernik	337–341

Subjects

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Historical linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General