English Historical Pragmatics
Andreas H Jucker author Irma Taavitsainen author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:30th Aug '13
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This is your guide to historical pragmatics in English studies. Providing an ideal introduction to historical pragmatics, this guide gives students a solid grounding in historical pragmatics and teaches the methodology needed to analyse language in social, cultural and historical contexts. Using a number of case studies including politeness, news discourse, and scientific discourse, this book provides new insights into the analysis of discourse markers, interjections, terms of address and speech acts. Through focusing on the methodological problems in using historical data, students learn the key concepts in historical pragmatics, as well as covering recent work at the interface of between language and literature.
ISBN: 9780748644681
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 325g
224 pages