Diachronic pragmatics
Subtitle: seven case studies in English illocutionary development
By: Leslie K. Arnovick.
Series: Pragmatics & beyond,; new ser. 68
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: English language -- Discourse analysis.; English language -- Grammar, Historical.; English language -- Spoken English.; Speech acts (Linguistics); Pragmatics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-181) and index.