Historical pragmatics - or, the linguistic history of spells, small words and sweet talk.
Medium
Periodical Article
Medium
- part of - (Periodical Copy) (Date) Apr2016 (Volume) 72
Classif
82 EMA
Subject
English
Page
6 - 9
Authors
Culpeper, Jonathan
Contents
If pragmatics is about the social contexts of speech, then, unsurprisingly perhaps, when social contexts change, so do speech acts and the way we view them. The author explores this in three different types of speech, revealing how much we can learn by analysing pragmatics through a historical lens.
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