John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. — 318 p. — (Pragmatics and Beyond).Historical speech act analysis, a collection of papers describing specific speech acts as well as methodological issues.Table of contents
Preface
Speech acts now and then: Towards a pragmatic history of English
Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker
Directives and commissives
Directives in Old English: Beyond politeness?
Thomas Kohnen
Requests and directness in Early Modern English trial proceedings and play texts, 1640–1760
Jonathan Culpeper and Dawn Archer
An inventory of directives in Shakespeare’s King Lear
Ulrich Busse
Two polite speech acts from a diachronic perspective: Aspects of the realisation of requesting and undertaking commitments in the nineteenth-century commercial community
Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti
No botmeles bihestes: Various ways of making binding promises in Middle English
Mari Pakkala-Weckström
Expressives and assertives
Hāl, Hail, Hello, Hi: Greetings in English language history
Joachim Grzega
Methinks you seem more beautiful than ever: Compliments and gender in the history of English
Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker
Apologies in the history of English: Routinized and lexicalized expressions of responsibility and regret
Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
Methods of speech act retrieval
Showing a little promise: Identifying and retrieving explicit illocutionary acts from a corpus of written prose
Petteri Valkonen
Fishing for compliments: Precision and recall in corpus-linguistic
compliment research
Andreas H. Jucker, Gerold Schneider, Irma Taavitsainen, Barb Breustedt
Tracing directives through text and time: Towards a methodology of a corpus-based diachronic speech-act analysis
Thomas Kohnen
Name index
