: Susan M. Fitzmaurice, Irma Taavitsainen
: Methods in Historical Pragmatics
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110197822
: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]ISSN
: 1
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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.


Susan Fitzmaurice, /STRONG> University of Sheffield, UK;Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Frontmatter1
Contents5
Introduction7
Historical pragmatics: What it is and how to do it17
The development of I mean: Implications for the study of historical pragmatics43
Soþlice, forsoothe, truly – communicative principles and invited inferences in the history of truthintensifying adverbs in English87
Speech act verbs and speech acts in the history of English113
Text types and the methodology of diachronic speech act analysis145
A pragmatics for interpreting Shakespeare’s Sonnets 1 to 20: Dialogue scripts and Erasmian intertexts173
Developing a more detailed picture of the English courtroom (1640–1760): Data and methodological issues facing historical pragmatics191
What do you lacke? what is it you buy? Early Modern English service encounters225
Letters as narrative: Narrative patterns and episode structure in early letters, 1400 to 1650247
Historical linguistics, literary interpretation, and the romances of Margaret Cavendish273
Discoursal aspects of the Legends of Holy Women by Osbern Bokenham291
Backmatter313