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List of figures and tables |
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To readers |
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1 Historical pragmatics: Communicative patterns of the past |
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1.2 The scope of pragmatics |
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1.3 Recent paradigm changes in pragmatics and in historical linguistics |
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5 | (4) |
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1.4 Communicative patterns of the past |
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9 | (4) |
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10 | (2) |
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12 | (1) |
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2 The widening perspectives of the digital era: Data in historical pragmatics |
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13 | (18) |
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13 | (1) |
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2.2 The `digital turn' in the humanities |
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14 | (4) |
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18 | (8) |
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2.4 Pragmatics of early speech recordings |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (4) |
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29 | (1) |
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30 | (1) |
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3 Excavating usage patterns: Methods in historical pragmatics |
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31 | (23) |
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31 | (1) |
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3.2 How are research questions translated into methods? |
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32 | (6) |
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38 | (3) |
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3.4 Corpus linguistics and historical pragmatics |
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41 | (2) |
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3.5 Different types of corpora, research questions, and suitable methods |
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43 | (3) |
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3.6 Applications of corpus-linguistic methods |
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46 | (3) |
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3.7 A possible research agenda |
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49 | (1) |
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50 | (4) |
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51 | (1) |
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52 | (2) |
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4 `Lo, which a greet thyng is affeccioun!': Discourse markers and interjections |
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54 | (19) |
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4.2 Definitions: Discourse markers and interjections |
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55 | (3) |
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4.3 Genre-specific developments |
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58 | (6) |
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4.4 Two case studies: Oh! and Alas! |
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64 | (6) |
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70 | (3) |
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70 | (1) |
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71 | (1) |
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5 `For I thou thee, thou Traitor': Terms of address |
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73 | (19) |
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73 | (1) |
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5.2 An overview of pronominal and nominal address terms |
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74 | (2) |
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76 | (1) |
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77 | (6) |
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83 | (4) |
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87 | (1) |
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Exercises and research projects |
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88 | (3) |
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91 | (1) |
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6 `No one can flatter so prettily as you do': Speech acts |
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92 | (21) |
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6.1 Speech act theory: From philosophical reflections to corpus searches |
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92 | (2) |
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6.2 Typical patterns, IFIDs and metacommunicative expressions |
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94 | (2) |
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6.3 From `God be with you' to `goodbye' |
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96 | (3) |
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99 | (3) |
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102 | (3) |
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6.6 Insults and compliments |
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105 | (3) |
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108 | (5) |
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109 | (1) |
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109 | (2) |
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111 | (1) |
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111 | (2) |
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7 `For your curteisie': Forms of politeness and impoliteness |
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113 | (17) |
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113 | (1) |
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7.2 Approaches to the study of politeness and impoliteness |
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114 | (2) |
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7.3 Old English: Mutual obligation, kinship loyalty, caritas and humilitas |
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116 | (3) |
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7.4 Middle English: Curteisie |
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119 | (2) |
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7.5 Early Modern English: Positive and negative politeness |
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121 | (4) |
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125 | (5) |
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127 | (1) |
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127 | (2) |
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129 | (1) |
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129 | (1) |
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8 The pragmatics of language change: Grammaticalisation and pragmaticalisation |
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130 | (16) |
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8.1 Can we find regularities in the way in which language changes? |
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130 | (1) |
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131 | (3) |
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134 | (9) |
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143 | (3) |
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143 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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145 | (1) |
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9 `Take a pounde of sugir and halfe a pounde of tendir roses lyues...': Genres and text types |
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146 | (18) |
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146 | (1) |
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9.2 Finding one's way through the maze |
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147 | (1) |
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148 | (3) |
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9.4 Genres as communication |
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151 | (2) |
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9.5 Shopping for an eclectic methodology for historical studies |
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153 | (3) |
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9.6 Case studies of genres |
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156 | (8) |
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159 | (4) |
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163 | (1) |
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10 `I pray thee friend Humfrey, what is phisicke?': Scientific and medical discourse |
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164 | (19) |
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164 | (2) |
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10.2 Science and pseudo-science |
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166 | (2) |
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10.3 Science and the changing world view |
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168 | (1) |
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10.4 From the shadows of Latin to the Royal Society |
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169 | (4) |
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10.5 Attitudes to the vernacular |
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173 | (1) |
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10.6 Dissemination and appropriation of scientific knowledge |
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174 | (4) |
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178 | (5) |
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179 | (3) |
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182 | (1) |
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11 `By letters from Riga we have advice': Historical news discourse |
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183 | (17) |
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183 | (1) |
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11.2 Early beginnings: The revolution of the printing press |
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184 | (3) |
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11.3 The newspaper revolution in the seventeenth century |
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187 | (3) |
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11.4 Structuring the news |
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190 | (5) |
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11.5 Recent trends: The internet revolution |
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195 | (2) |
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197 | (3) |
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197 | (2) |
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199 | (1) |
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12 `Fire! Help! Sir Walter has studied till his Head's on fire': Narrative patterns and historical pragmatics |
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200 | (18) |
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12.1 What are narratives and how are they relevant to historical pragmatics? |
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200 | (1) |
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12.2 Fairy tales and their analysis |
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201 | (6) |
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12.3 Natural narratives and prototypical story-telling structures |
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207 | (4) |
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12.4 Culturally salient underlying influences |
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211 | (2) |
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12.5 Conclusion: At the crossroads |
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213 | (5) |
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214 | (3) |
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217 | (1) |
Corpora and other electronic data sources |
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218 | (2) |
References |
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Index |
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