Speech Acts in the History of English

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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