Volume 31 (2019) - Special Issue

Pubblicato: 04-11-2019

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Doing things with words across time. Snapshots of communicative practices in and from the past

Sara Gesuato, Marina Dossena, Daniela Cesiri

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Title page

1-2
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Table of contents

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Chapters

5-6
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Introduction

Irma Taavitsainen, Sara Gesuato

7-14
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“Oops, I forgot, sorry”. The spill cries oops and whoops in the history of American English

Andreas H. Jucker

15-33
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From requesting to alms-seeking. The politeness formula fare la carità in nineteenth-century Italy

Annick Paternoster

35-85
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Some pragmatic aspects of historical minute-making. The distinctiveness of the Quaker approach

Judith Roads

67-89
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Discursive practices in feminist speeches. A diachronic analysis from the Late Modern period to the present day

Daniela Cesiri

91-110
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“Just a few lines to let you know”. Formulaic language and personalization strategies in Great War trench letters written by semi-literate Scottish soldiers

Kirsten Jane Lawson

111-143
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“How am I to answer this in English?”. Pragmatic fluency in a nineteenth-century English-language teaching text

Polina Shvanyukova

145-169
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“Please”, “Thank you”, “Excuse me” – “Why can’t you behave naturally?”. Linguistic politeness in post-revolutionary Soviet Russia

Victoriya Trubnikova

171-189
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The etiquette of aspect. How and why prositi stopped worrying and entered a pair

Marco Biasio

191-218
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Talking about lament in Ancient Greek drama. Historical metapragmatics and language ideology in Sophocles’ Ajax

Severin Hof

219-232
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Closing conflicts. Conversational strategies across Greek and Roman tragedies

Federica Iurescia, Gunther Martin

233-254
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From self-talk to grammar. The emergence of multiple paradigms from self-quoted questions in Korean

Hyun Jung Koo, Seongha Rhee

255-278
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Colophon

279-280
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