Wenrui Shi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Wenrui Shi plays a role.
Article
2023 Historical language use in Europe from a contrastive pragmatic perspective: An exploratory case study of letter closings Politeness in and across Historical Europe, Paternoster, Annick, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 143–159 | Article
This paper presents a case study which brings together the fields of contrastive pragmatics and historical pragmatics. Specifically, we contrastively investigate the ways in which the speech act set of “farewell” – representing the closing phase of an interaction – was realised in… read more