Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents XI
3. I. Introduction
4. 1. Trends and developments in historical pragmatics 3
5. II. Data and methodology
6. 2. Data in historical pragmatics 33
7. 3. Historical sociopragmatics 69
8. III. Diachrony
9. 4. Grammaticalization 97
10. 5. Subjectification and intersubjectification 127
11. 6. Pragmaticalisation and Discursisation 165
12. 7. Metaphor and metonymy 193
13. IV. Pragmaphilology
14. 8. Chaucer 219
15. 9. Shakespeare 247
16. V. Micropragmatics
17. 10. Discourse Markers 285
18. 11. Interjections and expletives 315
19. 12. Terms of address 351
20. VI. Interactional pragmatics
21. 13. Speech Acts 379
22. 14. Politeness 419
23. 15. Controversies 451
24. 16. Rituals 483
25. VII. Discourse domains
26. 17. Religious discourse 523
27. 18. Scientific discourse 549
28. 19. News discourse 587
29. 20. Courtroom discourse 621
30. 21. Correspondence 651
31. 22. Literary discourse 679
32. About the authors 705
33. Backmatter 713