Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Volume 6, Issue 1 (2005)

2005.  182 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
Articles
“We had like to have been killed by thunder & lightning” The semantic and pragmatic history of a construction that like to disappeared
Merja Kytö and Suzanne Romaine
1–35
From prepositional phrase to hesitation marker: The semantic and pragmatic evolution of French enfin
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
37–68
Institution and individual in conflict: The Early Middle English Ancrene Wisse and the authority of speech acts
Zina Petersen
69–85
The characterized reader in Hali Meiðhad and the resisting reader of feminist discourse on medieval devotional texts
Margaret Hostetler
87–111
Things you have to leave behind: The demise of “elegant writing” and the rise of genbun itchi style in Meiji-period Japan
Patrick Heinrich
113–132
Questions in Early Modern English pamphlets
Claudia Claridge
133–168
Barbara A. Fennell. 2001. A History of English. A Sociolinguistic Approach
Reviewed by Arja Nurmi
169–172
William Croft. 2000. Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Approach
Reviewed by Helena Raumolin-Brunberg
172–176
Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General