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Title Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics / edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Andreas H. Jucker, and Jukka Tuominen
Published Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014

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Series Pragmatics & beyond new series (P & BNS), 0922-842X ; volume 243
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. v. 243
Contents Diachronic corpus pragmatics : intersections and interactions / Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen -- I had lost sight of them then for a bit, but I went on pretty fast : two degree modifiers in the Old Bailey Corpus / Claudia Claridge and Merja Kytö -- Grammaticalisation of the Finnish stance adverbial muka, 'as if, supposedly, allegedly' / Taru Nordlund and Heli Pekkarinen -- From degree/manner adverbs to pragmatic particles in Japanese : a corpus-based approach to the diachronic parallel developments of amari, bakari, and yahari / Rumiko Shinzato -- Analyzing polysemy statistically across time : Täpselt 'exactly, precisely' -- a word with many faces / Annika Küngas -- On the development of the Italian truth adverbs davvero and veramente / Davide Ricca and Jacqueline Visconti -- "Strong churlish purging Pills" : multi-adjectival premodification in early modern medical writing in English / Jukka Tyrkkö -- On the origin of clausal parenthetical constructions : evidential/epistemic parentheticals with seem and impersonal think / María José López-Couso and Belén Méndez-Naya -- Tracing the history of deontic NCI patterns in Dutch / Timothy Colleman and Dirk Noël -- Front field negation in spoken Swedish : a regional archaism? / Jan K. Lindström -- Compliments in the history of American English : a communicative expression analysis / Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen -- Exploring verbal aggression in English historical texts using USAS : the possibilities, the problems and potential solutions / Dawn Archer -- A matter of tradition and good advice : dialogue analysis and corpus pragmatics in Old Spanish texts / Angela Schrott
Summary Based on a corpus of Old Spanish texts, the discourse traditions of counselling are analysed within the framework of diachronic corpus pragmatics and dialogue analysis. On a methodological level, the study distinguishes three types of pragmatics and offers a clear-cut distinction between language change and cultural changes in the realm of discourse traditions. In order to clearly define the different interaction patterns in these dialogues, the qualitative approach of traditional philology is combined with quantitative methods that extract lexical clusters which are typical of counselling dia
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Subject English language -- Grammar.
English language -- Usage.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
English language -- Grammar
English language -- Usage
Pragmatik
Historische Sprachwissenschaft
Korpus Linguistik
Form Electronic book
Author Taavitsainen, Irma
Jucker, Andreas H.
Tuominen, Jukka
ISBN 9789027270719
9027270716
130646112X
9781306461122
9027256489
9789027256485