Historical Pragmatics
Andreas H. Jucker · Irma Taavitsainen
Sept 2010 · Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS] Book 8 · Walter de Gruyter
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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 recent developments in the field.
About the author
Andreas H. Jucker, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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