Diachronic corpus pragmatics / edited by Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki ; Andreas H. Jucker, University of Zurich ; Jukka Tuominen, University of Helsinki.

Other author Taavitsainen, Irma.
Other author Jucker, Andreas H.
Other author Tuominen, Jukka.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Descriptionviii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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SeriesPragmatics & Beyond New Series (P&BNS), 0922-842X ; volume 243
Pragmatics & beyond ; 243. ^A284504
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.
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LCCN 2013044124
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