Historical Pragmatics (Hardcover)

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 recent developments in the field.

General

Imprint:	de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS]
Release date:	September 2010
First published:	2010
Editors:	Andreas H Jucker • Irma Taavitsainen
Dimensions:	240 x 170 x 46mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	756
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-021427-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Pragmatics
LSN:	3-11-021427-X
Barcode:	9783110214277

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