Handbooks of pragmatics Vol. 8. Historical pragmatics / ed. by Andreas H. Jucker ; Irma Taavitsainen

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. * to date there is no handbook devoted to historical pragmatics, so this is the first one of its kind * covers all areas of historical pragmatics from grammaticalization theory to pragmatic entities, such as discourse markers, speech acts and address terms * offers surveys of historical pragmatic research in individual discourse domains from scientific writing to literary discourse * the handbook with its twenty-two articles and a subject index outlines and defines historical pragmatics in more detail than has been done before

This new landmark series of thirteen self-contained handbooks provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the entire field of pragmatics. It is based on a wide conception of pragmatics as the study of intentional human interaction in social and cultural contexts. The series reflects, appraises and structures a field that is exceptionally vast, unusually heterogeneous and still rapidly expanding. In-depth articles by leading experts from around the world discuss the foundations, major theories and most recent developments of pragmatics including philosophical, cognitive, sociocultural, contrastive and diachronic perspectives.

This new landmark series of nine self-contained handbooks provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the entire field of pragmatics. It is based on a wide conception of pragmatics as the study of intentional human interaction in social and cultural contexts. The series reflects, appraises and structures a field that is exceptionally vast, unusually heterogeneous and still rapidly expanding. In-depth articles by leading experts from around the world discuss the foundations, major theories and most recent developments of pragmatics including philosophical, cognitive, sociocultural, contrastive and diachronic perspectives Frontmatter Table of contents 1. Trends and developments in historical pragmatics 2. Data in historical pragmatics 3. Historical sociopragmatics 4. Grammaticalization 5. Subjectification and intersubjectification 6. Pragmaticalisation and Discursisation 7. Metaphor and metonymy 8. Chaucer 9. Shakespeare 10. Discourse Markers 11. Interjections and expletives 12. Terms of address 13. Speech Acts 14. Politeness 15. Controversies 16. Rituals 17. Religious discourse 18. Scientific discourse 19. News discourse 20. Courtroom discourse 21. Correspondence 22. Literary discourse About the authors Backmatter