Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface and acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Metacommunicative profiles of communicative genres
6. 1.1 Cross-sectional studies
7. Sociability 21
8. “I write you these few lines” 45
9. 1.2 Longitudinal studies
10. Inscribed orality and the end of a discourse archive 67
11. Managing disputes with civility 89
12. The metapragmatics of civilized belligerence 111
13. The metapragmatics of hoaxing 129
14. From speaker and hearer to chatter, blogger and user 151
15. Part 2. Metacommunicative lexical sets
16. Now as a text deictic feature in Late Medieval and Early Modern English medical writing 179
17. Performative and non-performative uses of speech-act verbs in the history of English 207
18. Verbs of answering revisited 223
19. A lexical approach to paralinguistic communication of the past 247
20. Part 3. (Meta-)communicative ethics and ideologies
21. Historical evidence of communicative maxims 271
22. Name index 289
23. Subject index 291