In:Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 35] 1995
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 7 December 1995
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.35.toc
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Table of contents
Prefaceix
List of Contributorsxiii
Introduction
Pragmaphilology
They Had Thier Points: Punctaution and Interpretation in English Renaissance Literature55
A Close Reading of William Caxton’s Dialogues: “… to lerne Shortly frenssh and englyssh”99
Justifying Grammars: A Socio-Pragmatic Foray into the Discourse Community of Early English Grammatians145
Diachronic form-to-function mapping
Pragmatic Constraints to Word Order, and Word-Order Change in English217
The Semantic and Pragmatic Development of Substitutive Complex Prepositions in English243
The Ambiguous Adverbial/Conjunctions pa and ponne in Middle English: A Discourse-Pragmatic Study of then and when in Early English Saints’ Lives345
Interjections in Early Modern English: From Imitation of Spoken to Conventions of Written Language439
Diachronic function-to-form mapping
“Then I saw to antique heddes”: Discourse Strategies in Early Modern English Travelogues499
Constraints on Politeness: The Pragmatics of Address Formulae in Early English Correspondance541
Index of Names and Sources603
Index of Subjects617
