Historical pragmatics (De Gruyter Mouton, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Frontmatter; Table of contents; 1. Trends and developments in historical pragmatics; 2. Data in historical pragmatics; 3. Historical sociopragmatics; 4. Grammaticalization; 5. Subjectification and intersubjectification; 6. Pragmaticalisation and Discursisation; 7. Metaphor and metonymy; 8. Chaucer; 9. Shakespeare; 10. Discourse Markers; 11. Interjections and expletives; 12. Terms of address; 13. Speech Acts; 14. Politeness; 15. Controversies; 16. Rituals; 17. Religious discourse; 18. Scientific discourse; 19. News discourse; 20. Courtroom discourse; 21. Correspondence; 22. Literary discourse
The Handbook of Historical Pragmatics provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in pragmatics devoted to a diachronic study of language use and human interaction in context. It covers all areas of historical pragmatics from grammaticalization theory to pragmatic entities, such as discourse markers, speech acts and politeness to individual discourse domains from scientific writing to literary discourse. Each contribution, written by a leading specialist, gives a succinct, representative and up-to-date overview of research questions, theories, methods and rece