English Historical Pragmatics by Andreas H Jucker

English Historical Pragmatics by Andreas H Jucker

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Summary

Historical pragmatics is placed at the intersection between pragmatics, historical linguistics and neighbouring disciplines like (historical) sociolinguistics.This book introduces this field to advanced linguistic students coming to the topic for the first time.

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English Historical Pragmatics by Andreas H Jucker

Providing an ideal introduction to historical pragmatics, this guide gives students a solid grounding in historical pragmatics and teaches the methodology needed to analyse language in social, cultural and historical contexts. Using a number of case studies including politeness, news discourse, and scientific discourse, this book provides new insights into the analysis of discourse markers, interjections, terms of address and speech acts. Through focusing on the methodological problems in using historical data, students learn the key concepts in historical pragmatics, as well as covering recent work at the interface of between language and literature.
Andreas H. Jucker is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Zurich in Switzerland Irma Taavitsainen is Professor of English Philology at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on historical pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and the development of scientific and medical writing. She has published widely on these topics.
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ISBN 13 9780748644681
ISBN 10 0748644687
Title English Historical Pragmatics
Author Andreas H Jucker
Series Edinburgh Textbooks On The English Language - Advanced
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Year published 2013-08-30
Number of pages 224
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