Methods in historical pragmatics / edited by Susan Fitzmaurice, Irma Taavitsainen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction -- Historical pragmatics: What it is and how to do it -- The development of I mean: Implications for the study of historical pragmatics -- Soþlice, forsoothe, truly -- communicative principles and invited inferences in the history of truth-intensifying adverbs in English -- Speech act verbs and speech acts in the history of English -- Text types and the methodology of diachronic speech act analysis -- A pragmatics for interpreting Shakespeare's Sonnets 1 to 20: Dialogue scripts and Erasmian intertexts -- Developing a more detailed picture of the English courtroom (1640-1760): Data and methodological issues facing historical pragmatics -- What do you lacke? what is it you buy? Early Modern English service encounters -- Letters as narrative: Narrative patterns and episode structure in early letters, 1400 to 1650 -- Historical linguistics, literary interpretation, and the romances of Margaret Cavendish -- Discoursal aspects of the Legends of Holy Women by Osbern Bokenham.

"The studies in this collection represent the critical convergence of different traditions of reading and analyzing discourse. They expose key questions about the methods and the outcomes of historical pragmatic approaches to the study of the history of the English language. The volume will interest scholars in English historical linguistics, literary history, philology, and discourse analysis"--EBL.

In English.

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