In:Speech Acts in the History of English
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 176] 2008
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Preface
Speech acts now and then: Towards a pragmatic history of English
Part I. Directives and commissives
Directives in Old English: Beyond politeness?
Requests and directness in Early Modern English trial proceedings and play-texts, 1640-1760
An inventory of directives in Shakespeare's King Lear
Two polite speech acts from a diachronic perspective: Aspects of the realisation of requesting and undertaking commitments in the nineteenth-century commercial community
"No botmeles bihestes": Various ways of making binding promises in Middle English
Part II: Expressives and assertives
Hāl, Hail, Hello, Hi: Greetings in English language history
"Methinks you seem more beautiful than ever": Compliments and gender in the history of English
Apologies in the history of English: Routinized and lexicalized expressions of responsibility and regret
Part III: Methods of speech act retrieval
Showing a little promise: Identifying and retrieving explicit illocutionary acts from a corpus of written prose
Fishing for compliments: Precision and recall in corpus-linguistic compliment research
Tracing directives through text and time: Towards a methodology of corpus-based diachronic speech-act analysis
Index
