Methods in Historical Pragmatics

This volume represents a timely collective review and assessment of what it is we do when we do English historical pragmatics or historical discourse analysis. The context for the volume is a critical assessment of the assumptions and practices defining the body of research conducted on the history of the English language from the perspective of historical pragmatics, broadly construed. The aim of the volume is to engage with matters of approach...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110190419
• ISBN13: 9783110190410
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary