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Other authors / contributors: | Jucker, Andreas H.
Taavitsainen, Irma.
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ISBN: | 9783110214284 3110214288 9783110214277 311021427X
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
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Summary: | 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 rece.
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Other form: | Print version: Historical pragmatics. Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2010 9783110214277
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