Diachronic Pragmatics : Seven case studies in English illocutionary development.
The purpose of Diachronic Pragmatics is to exemplify historical pragmatics in its twofold sense of constituting both a subject matter and a methodology. This book demonstrates how diachronic pragmatics, with its complementary diachronic function-to-form mapping and diachronic form-to-function mappin...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- DIACHRONIC PRAGMATICS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Table of contents; Chapter 1. English Illocutionary History: A Methodological Introduction; Chapter 2. Flyting and Sounding the Agonistic Insult; Chapter 3. Rationalist Prescriptions for Shall and Will; Chapter 4. The Expanding Discourse of the English Promise; Chapter 5. Subjectification in the Common Curse; Chapter 6. Good-bye: The Pragmatic Reanalysis of the Close; Chapter 7. It's Nothing to be Sneezed At: Discursization in the Polite Bless You!