Speech Acts in the History of English
Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they use them in the same way? How did they signal speech act values and how did they negotiate them in case of uncertainty? These are some of the questions that are addressed in this volume in innovative case studies that cover a wide range of speech acts from Old English to Present-day English. All the studies offer careful discussions of methodological and theoretical issues as well as detailed descriptions of specific speech acts. The first part of the volume is devoted to directives and commissives, i.e. speech acts such as requests, commands and promises. The second part is devoted to expressives and assertives and deals with speech acts such as greetings, compliments and apologies. The third part, finally, contains technical reports that deal primarily with the problem of extracting speech acts from historical corpora.
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Directives and commissives
Requests and directness in Early Modern English trial proceedings
An inventory of directives in Shakespeares King Lear
Aspects of the realisation
Various ways of making binding promises
Greetings in English language history
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Aijmer Andreas H apologies attested binding promise Blum-Kulka British National Corpus Cambridge Canterbury Tales cent century compliments constructions context conventional indirect Cordelia corpora Corpus Linguistics corpus-based culture Deutschmann diachronic diachronic speech act DigiBib59 directive speech discourse drama Early Modern English English language example explicit performatives expressions fiction frequency function genres greeting hearer Helsinki Corpus Historical Pragmatics history of English illocutionary acts illocutionary force imperative indirect requests indirect speech acts interaction Irma Taavitsainen eds Journal of Historical Jucker and Taavitsainen Kohnen Lear letters lexical Manes and Wolfson meaning Middle English Mouton de Gruyter Old English patterns performative verb person phrase politeness pray Present-day English pronoun realised retrieval Searle semantic sentence Shakespeare's social Sociopragmatic speaker speech act analysis speech act verbs strategies swear Taavitsainen and Jucker text types thou tion tive Troilus Troilus and Criseyde trouthe University Press utterance words