Historical pragmatics [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen

• Pubblicazione: New York, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (757 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.44
• Soggetto topico: English language - Grammar, Historical; Pragmatics; Discourse analysis
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: ER 300
• Altri autori: JuckerAndreas H TaavitsainenIrma
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- I. Introduction -- 1. Trends and developments in historical pragmatics -- II. Data and methodology -- 2. Data in historical pragmatics -- 3. Historical sociopragmatics -- III. Diachrony -- 4. Grammaticalization -- 5. Subjectification and intersubjectification -- 6. Pragmaticalisation and Discursisation -- 7. Metaphor and metonymy -- IV. Pragmaphilology -- 8. Chaucer -- 9. Shakespeare -- V. Micropragmatics -- 10. Discourse Markers -- 11. Interjections and expletives -- 12. Terms of address -- VI. Interactional pragmatics -- 13. Speech Acts -- 14. Politeness -- 15. Controversies -- 16. Rituals -- VII. Discourse domains -- 17. Religious discourse -- 18. Scientific discourse -- 19. News discourse -- 20. Courtroom discourse -- 21. Correspondence -- 22. Literary discourse -- About the authors -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Historical pragmatics
• ISBN: 1-282-88476-X; 9786612884764; 3-11-021428-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455987803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS]