In:Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics
Edited by Ulrich Busse and Axel Hübler
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 220] 2012
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1. Metacommunicative profiles
of communicative genres
1.1 Cross-sectional studies
Sociability: Conversation and the performance of friendship
in early eighteenth-century letters
“I write you these few lines”: Metacommunication and pragmatics
in nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants’ letters
1.2 Longitudinal studies
Inscribed orality and the end of a discourse archive: Metapragmatic and metadiscursive expressions in the Peterborough Chronicle
Managing disputes with civility: On seventeenth-century argumentative discourse
The metapragmatics of civilized belligerence
The metapragmatics of hoaxing: Tracking a genre label from Edgar Allan Poe to Web 2.0
From speaker and hearer to chatter,
blogger and user: The changing metacommunicative lexicon in computer-mediated communication
Part 2. Metacommunicative lexical sets
Now as a text deictic feature in Late Medieval and Early Modern English medical writing
Performative and non-performative uses
of speech-act verbs in the history of English
Verbs of answering revisited: A corpus-based study of their pragmatic development
A lexical approach to paralinguistic communication of the past
Part 3. (Meta-)communicative ethics and ideologies
Historical evidence of communicative maxims
Name index
Subject index
