Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Volume 6, Issue 1 (2005)

2005. 182 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.6.1

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

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Historical linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General