English Historical Pragmatics

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English Historical Pragmatics is written by Andreas H Jucker and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0748644709 (ISBN 10) and 9780748644704 (ISBN 13).

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.