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The Handbook of Historical Pragmatics provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in pragmatics devoted to a diachronic study of language use and human interaction in context. It covers all areas of historical pragmatics from grammaticalization theory to pragmatic e...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter Mouton,
©2010.
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| Series: | Handbooks of pragmatics ;
v. 8. |
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| Online Access: |
Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The Handbook of Historical Pragmatics provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in pragmatics devoted to a diachronic study of language use and human interaction in context. It covers all areas of historical pragmatics from grammaticalization theory to pragmatic entities, such as discourse markers, speech acts and politeness to individual discourse domains from scientific writing to literary discourse. Each contribution, written by a leading specialist, gives a succinct, representative and up-to-date overview of research questions, theories, methods and rece. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 743 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783110214284 3110214288 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |