Speech acts in the history of English /:

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 th...

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Weitere Verfasser: Jucker, Andreas H., Taavitsainen, Irma
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.
Schriftenreihe:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 176.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 318 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789027291417
9027291411
1282152084
9781282152083
9786612152085
6612152087
ISSN:0922-842X ;

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