Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics
Edited by Ulrich Busse and Axel Hübler
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 220] 2012. vii, 292 pp.
Ulrich Busse
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ulrich Busse plays a role.
Titles
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus: Morpho-syntactic variability of second person pronouns
Ulrich Busse
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 106] 2002. xiv, 344 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Pragmatics | Syntax
Articles
2020 “Divided by a common language”? The treatment of Americanism(s) in Late Modern English dictionaries and usage guides on both sides of the Atlantic Late Modern English: Novel encounters, Kytö, Merja and Erik Smitterberg (eds.), pp. 185–202 | Chapter
The present study investigates the treatment of the term Americanism and its plural form in their generic sense in selected British and American reference works of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It concentrates on two special types of reference books, namely dictionaries of Americanisms and… read more
2018 Lear’s questions revisited Revisiting Shakespeare's Language, Baicchi, Annalisa, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani and Antonio Bertacca (eds.), pp. 60–80 | Article
This paper applies a pragmatic approach to King Lear’s questions. To this end the communicative function of different types of questions is worked out first. In a second step Lear’s questions are correlated to the dramatic development of the play. In terms of dramatic text construction, the two… read more
2015 Transatlantic perspectives on late nineteenth-century English usage: Alford (1864) compared to White (1871) Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English, Dossena, Marina (ed.), pp. 73–97 | Article
The present contribution investigates two handbooks on English usage dating from the late nineteenth century, one British (i.e. Alford’s The Queen’s English, of 1864) and the other American (i.e. White’s Words and their Uses, of 1871). Both manuals were important and successful in their time and… read more
2012 Introduction Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics, Busse, Ulrich and Axel Hübler (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2011 Review of Nakayasu (2009): The Pragmatics of Modals in Shakespeare Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 306–308 | Review
2009 Fowler’s Modern English Usage at the interface of lexis and grammar Exploring the Lexis–Grammar Interface, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 69–87 | Article
The relationship between lexicon and syntax poses a problem to theoretical linguistics but also to the normal language user as the theoretical division is reflected in a division of labour between dictionaries on the one hand and grammars on the other; and it seems as if only usage guides deal with… read more
2008 An inventory of directives in Shakespeare's King Lear Speech Acts in the History of English, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 85–114 | Article
2005 Review of Becker (2003): Familiar Dialogues in Englyssh and Frenche. Sprachliche Interaktion und ihre Vermittlung in der frühen Neuzeit The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Corinne Rossari (eds.), pp. 343–348 | Review
2003 9. The co-occurrence of nominal and pronominal address froms in the Shakespeare Corpus: Who says thou or you to whom? Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems, Taavitsainen, Irma and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.), pp. 193–221 | Article
2001 The use of address pronouns in Early Modern English Actualization: Linguistic Change in Progress, Andersen, Henning (ed.), pp. 119 ff. | Article