Speech acts in the history of English:
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2008
Schriftenreihe:Pragmatics & beyond 176
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Speech Acts in the History of English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Speech acts now and then; Directives and commissives; Directives in Old English; Requests and directness in Early Modern English trial proceedings and play texts, 1640-1760; An inventory of directives in Shakespeare's King Lear; Two polite speech acts from a diachronic perspective; No botmeles bihestes; Expressives and assertives; Hal, Hail, Hello, Hi; "Methinks you seem more beautiful than ever"; Apologies in the history of English; Methods of speech act retrieval
Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they use them in the same way? How did they signal speech act values and how did they negotiate them in case of uncertainty? These are some of the questions that are addressed in this volume in innovative case studies that cover a wide range of speech acts from Old English to Present-day English. All the studies offer careful discussions of methodological and theoretical issues as well as detailed descriptions of specific speech acts. The first part of the volume is devoted to directives and commissives, i.e. speec
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ISBN:9027254206
9027291411
9789027254207
9789027291417

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