The Reign of Truth and Faith

by Helen Bromhead

This is a ground-breaking study in the historical semantics and pragmatics of English in the 16th and 17th centuries. It examines the meaning, use and cultural underpinnings of confident- and certain-sounding epistemic expressions, such as forsooth, by my troth and in faith, and first person epistemic phrases, such as I suppose, I ween and I think.

The work supports the hypothesis that the British Enlightenment and its attendant empiricism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110205599
• ISBN13: 9783110205596
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary