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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arnovick, Leslie K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2000.
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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!