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Historical Pragmatics is written by Andreas H. Jucker and published by Walter de Gruyter. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110214288 (ISBN 10) and 9783110214284 (ISBN 13).
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.