Christine Elsweiler
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christine Elsweiler plays a role.
Articles
2024 Modal may in requests: A comparison of regional pragmatic variation in Early Modern Scottish and English correspondence Journal of Historical Pragmatics 25:3, pp. 355–391 | Article
This study applies House’s (1996, 2005) dimensions of cross-cultural differences as a diagnostic tool to investigate regional variation regarding two pragmalinguistic requestive patterns with may in Scottish and English non-private letters (1500 to 1700). The dimensional scheme proves a useful… read more
2019 Pragmatic and formulaic uses of shall and will in Older Scots and Early Modern English official letter writing Norms and Conventions in the History of English, Bös, Birte and Claudia Claridge (eds.), pp. 167–190 | Chapter
Letters of the Early Modern period are typically composed of set parts, such as a salutation or letter-closing formulae, and of less conventionalised passages. In both conventional and non-conventional parts predictive and intentional shall and will are regularly used. This comparative study of… read more
2018 Chapter 9. Why Scotsmen will drown and shall not be saved: The historical development of will and shall in Older Scots Explorations in English Historical Syntax, Cuyckens, Hubert, Hendrik De Smet, Liesbet Heyvaert and Charlotte Maekelberghe (eds.), pp. 235–258 | Chapter
The divergent use of the modal auxiliaries will and shall in Scots and Standard English was noticed as early as the eighteenth century. The Scottish National Dictionary states that in Scots, first-person will instead of shall is used for predictions without denoting volition, which, in turn, is… read more