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Speech acts in the history of English /

Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they use them in the same way? How did they signal speech act values and how did they negotiate them in case of uncertainty? These are some of the questions that are addressed in this volume in innovative case studies th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jucker, Andreas H., Taavitsainen, Irma
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 176.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Speech Acts in the History of English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Speech acts now and then; Directives and commissives; Directives in Old English; Requests and directness in Early Modern English trial proceedings and play texts, 1640-1760; An inventory of directives in Shakespeare's King Lear; Two polite speech acts from a diachronic perspective; No botmeles bihestes; Expressives and assertives; Hal, Hail, Hello, Hi; "Methinks you seem more beautiful than ever"; Apologies in the history of English; Methods of speech act retrieval.