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Andreas H Jucker & Irma Taavitsainen
English Historical Pragmatics [EPUB ebook]

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Providing an ideal introduction to historical pragmatics, this guide gives students a solid grounding in historical pragmatics and teaches the methodology needed to analyse language in social, cultural and historical contexts. Using a number of case studies including politeness, news discourse, and scientific discourse, this book provides new insights into the analysis of discourse markers, interjections, terms of address and speech acts. Through focusing on the methodological problems in using historical data, students learn the key concepts in historical pragmatics, as well as covering recent work at the interface of between language and literature.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780748686414 ● Publisher Edinburgh University Press ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 3453948 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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