Diachronic corpus pragmatics
By: edited by Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki ; Andreas H. Jucker, University of Zurich ; Jukka Tuominen, University of Helsinki
Series: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series (P&BNS) -- volume 243; Pragmatics & beyond -- 243.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9789027256485; 9789027270719
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Pragmatics; Historical linguistics; Corpora (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Diachronic corpus pragmatics : intersections and interactions / Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen; title: I had lost sight of them then for a bit, but I went on pretty fast : two degree modifiers in the Old Bailey Corpus / Claudia Claridge and Merja Kytö; title: Grammaticalisation of the Finnish stance adverbial muka, 'as if, supposedly, allegedly' / Taru Nordlund and Heli Pekkarinen; title: From degree/manner adverbs to pragmatic particles in Japanese : a corpus-based approach to the diachronic parallel developments of amari, bakari, and yahari / Rumiko Shinzato; title: Analyzing polysemy statistically across time : Täpselt 'exactly, precisely' - a word with many faces / Annika Küngas; title: On the development of the Italian truth adverbs davvero and veramente / Davide Ricca and Jacqueline Visconti; title: "Strong churlish purging Pills" : multi-adjectival premodification in early modern medical writing in English / Jukka Tyrkkö; title: On the origin of clausal parenthetical constructions : evidential/epistemic parentheticals with seem and impersonal think / María José López-Couso and Belén Méndez-Naya; title: Tracing the history of deontic NCI patterns in Dutch / Timothy Colleman and Dirk Noël; title: Front field negation in spoken Swedish : a regional archaism? / Jan K. Lindström; title: Compliments in the history of American English : a communicative expression analysis / Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen; title: Exploring verbal aggression in English historical texts using USAS : the possibilities, the problems and potential solutions / Dawn Archer; title: A matter of tradition and good advice : dialogue analysis and corpus pragmatics in Old Spanish texts / Angela Schrott.