Table of contents
Acknowledgmentsix
A frame for windows: On studying texts and discourses of the past
Discourse in the public sphere5
News discourse: Mass media communication from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century
Advertising discourse in eighteenth-century English newspapers
Presidential inaugural addresses: A study in a genre development
Freedom of speech at stake: Fallacies in some political discourses in the Early Republic
Text-initiating strategies in eighteenth-century newspaper headlines
Science and academia81
Patterns of agentivity and narrativity in early science discourse
The economics academic lecture in the nineteenth century: Marshall's Lectures to Women
Contesting authorities: John Wilkins' use of and attitude towards the Bible, the classics and contemporary science in The Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638)
Personal pronouns in argumentation: An early tobacco controversy
Criticism under scrutiny: A diachronic and cross-cultural outlook on academic conflict (1810–1995)
The underlying pattern of the Renaissance botanical genrepinax
Genres and the appropriation of science: Loci communes in English in the late medieval and early modern period
Letters and litterature197
Chaucer's narrators and audiences: Self-deprecating discourse in Book of the Duchess and House of Fame
Discourse on a par with syntax, or the effects of the linguistic organisation of letters on the diachronic characterisation of the text type
Verba sic spernit mea: The usage of rupture of coherence in Seneca's tragedies
Discourse and pragmatics257
‘Ther been thinges thre, the whiche thynges troublen al this erthe’: The discourse-pragmatics of ‘demonstrative which’
Processes underlying the development of pragmatic markers: The case of (I) say
From certainty to doubt: The evolution of the discourse marker voire in French
Politeness as a distancing device in the passive and in indefinite pronouns
Language contact and discourse341
Discourse features of code-switching in legal reports in late medieval England
Focusing strategies in Old French and Old Irish
Medieval mixed-language business discourse and the rise of Standard English
Author Index
Subject Index
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