English Historical Pragmatics Paperback / softback
by Andreas Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen
Part of the Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language series
Paperback / softback
Description
This is your guide to historical pragmatics in English studies.
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:30/08/2013
- ISBN:9780748644681
Other Formats
- Hardback from £95.55
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:30/08/2013
- ISBN:9780748644681
