HISTORICAL PRAGMATICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- The Historical Perspective in Pragmatics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The nature of historical pragmatics -- 3. The data problem -- 4. The scope of historical pragmatics -- 4.1. Pragmaphilology -- 4.2. Diachronic pragmatics -- 4.2.1. Diachronic form-to-function mapping -- 4.2.2. Diachronic function-to-form mapping -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Pragmaphilology -- The Openness of Medieval Texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Medieval context -- 3. Schooling and literacy -- 4. Dialects -- 5. Syntactic and morphological disparity -- 6. Semantic opacity -- 7. Text structure -- 8. Medieval intertextuality -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- They Had Their Points Punctuation and Interpretation in English Renaissance Literature -- Notes -- References -- Punctuation: And - 'Pragmatics' -- Notes -- References -- A Close Reading of William Caxton's Dialogues"... to lerne Shortly frenssh and englyssh" -- 1. The original and its derivates - interest of topic -- 2. A close reading of Caxton's Dialogues -- 2.1. -- 2.2. -- 2.3. -- 2.4. -- 2.5. -- 3. Performance in the classroom -- 4. Dialogue as a traditional principle of foreign language teaching -- 5. Caxton and the new medium -- Notes -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- References -- Wills and Will-Making in 16th and 17th Century England Some Pragmatic Aspects -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Will-making and the legal function of wills -- 3. Will-making and the religious function of wills -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- Manuscript Source -- References -- Justifying Grammars A Socio-Pragmatic Foray into the Discourse Community of Early English Grammarians -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data base of grammars -- 3. A socio-pragmatic model of prefatory texts.

4. An analysis of the prefatory texts in four selected grammars -- 4.1. Title pages -- 4.2. Dedications to patrons -- 4.3. Miège 's address to the reader -- 4.4. The prefaces -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix 1: Title pages of the four grammars examined -- Appendix 2: Analysis of the dedications to patrons -- References -- Communicative Clues in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Diachronic form-to-function mapping -- Pragmatic Maxims in Explanations of Language Change? -- 1. The introduction of the concept of a pragmatic maxim in explanations of language change -- 2. Trying to locate maxims amidst norms -- 3. Do maxims play a role in language change? -- 4. What categories, normative or not, are involved in language change? -- 5. Language change with no normative origin -- 6. A summarising diagram -- Notes -- References -- Pragmatic Constraints to Word Order and Word-Order Change in English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some methodological prerequisites -- 3. A view of linguistic change -- 4. Word-order studies -- 5. Basic Word Order and a proposal -- 6. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The Semantic and Pragmatic Development of Substitutive Complex Prepositions in English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Instead of -- 3. In place of -- 4. In lieu of -- 5. Summary of the changes -- 6. The pragmatics of expectation -- 7. Implications for historical pragmatics -- Notes -- References -- On Doing as You Please -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The UNPROP construction as a reanalysis -- 3. Introduction of the subject Experiencer -- 4. Variation between subject and object Experiencers -- 4.1. Shakespeare -- 4.2. The earliest Experiencer subjects -- 4.3. Comparison with the PROP construction -- 5. Later development of the UNPROP construction -- 5.1. Summary of modern developments -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes.

Appendix: Texts examined in this study -- References -- Your Average Generalisations A Case-Study in Historical Pragmatics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. YOUR 2 and generic reference: Early Modern English and the present-day English -- 3. YOUR 2 and discourse distribution from 1588-1608 -- 4. Conclusion: Linguistic change and trends in contemporary usage -- Notes -- References -- Demonstratives in Early Modern English Letters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical framework -- 2.1. The main deictic usages of this and that -- 2.1.1. -- 2.1.2. -- 2.1.3. -- 2.1.4. -- 2.1.5. -- 2.1.6. -- 2.2. Non-deictic usage of this and that -- 3. The usage of EModE demonstratives -- 3.1. The corpus -- 3.2. The analysis -- 3.2.1. That -- 3.2.1.1. Discourse deixis -- 3.2.1.2. That in pointing ~ -- 3.2.1.3. The 'grammatical' cases -- 3.2.1.4. Emotional deixis -- 3.2.2. This -- 3.2.2.1. Direct pointing -- 3.2.2.2. Symbolic pointing -- 3.2.2.3. Discourse deixis -- 3.2.2.4. Problematic usage -- 4. Conclusions and prospects -- Notes -- References -- The Ambiguous Adverbial/Conjunctions pa and ponnein Middle English A Discourse-Pragmatic Study of then and when in Early English Saints' Lives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background: Old English -- 3. Changes in Middle English -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- Primary sources -- References -- Middle English þo and other Narrative Discourse Markers -- Notes -- References -- Diachronic Analysis of Japanese Discourse Markers -- 1. Introduction: diachronic analysis of discourse markers -- 2. Key concepts of this study -- 2.1. Discourse markers -- 2.2. Pragmatic change -- 2.3. Functional-semantic model of language -- 3. Diachronic analysis of the Japanese discourse markers Demo and Dakedo (Markers of contrast) -- 3.1. Diachronic analysis of the Japanese discourse marker demo -- 3.1.1. Stage I: clause-final V-te + mo (11th century-16th century).

3.1.2. Stage II: Demo as a discourse marker (16th century-early 20th century) -- 3.1.3. Stage III: Demo as a discourse marker (PDJ) -- 3.2. Diachronic analysis of the Japanese discourse marker Dakedo -- 3.2.1. Motivation for the occurrence of sentence-initial Dakedo (Conjunctions prefaced by D) -- 3.2.2. Stage I: clause-final V + kedo (18th century - early 20th century) -- 3.2.3. Stage II: Dakedo~ as a discourse marker (early 20th century-PDJ) -- 4. Pragmatic change in the Japanese discourse markers Demo and Dakedo -- 5. Conclusion: Pragmatic change and grammaticalisation -- Notes -- References -- Interjections in Early Modern English From Imitation of Spoken to Conventions of Written Language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Between Present-day spoken and Late Middle English written interjections -- 3. Occurrences of interjections in Early Modern English genres -- 4. The use of interjections -- 5. Scaling interjections according to EModE genres -- 6. A summary of functions of interjections in EModE -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Diachronic function-to-form mappings -- Topics in the History of Dialogue Forms -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Stages in the development of historical dialogue analysis -- 1.2. On the status of the concept of dialogue form -- 1.3. Is an evolutionary history of dialogue forms feasible? -- 2. Organising principles of dialogues and types of historicalchange -- 2.1. Patterns of speech act sequencing and strategies -- 2.2. Forms of utterance -- 2.3. Topics and networks of topics -- 2.4. Communication principles -- 3. The evolution of dialogue forms in institutional contexts -- 4. Historical explanation -- Notes -- Bibliography of primary sources -- References -- "Then I saw to antique heddes" Discourse Strategies in Early Modern English Travelogues -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Temporal discourse strategy.

3. Locative discourse strategy -- 4. Participant/topic-oriented discourse strategy -- 5. Conclusion -- Note -- Data -- References -- Linguistic Politeness Strategies in Shakespeare's Plays -- 1. Aims and scope -- 2. Positive politeness -- 3. Negative politeness -- 4. A Quantitative Account -- 5. Brown and Levinson's strategies vs. Leech's maxims -- 6. Final remarks -- Appendix -- References -- Constraints on Politeness The Pragmatics of Address Formulae in Early English Correspondence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background issues -- 2.1. Previous approaches -- 2.2. Forms of address as conventional politeness -- 2.3. Letter types -- 3. England 1420-1680: Social order, literacy and postal services -- 3.1. Social order -- 3.2. Literacy -- 3.3. Postal services -- 4. The forms of address 1420-1680 -- 4.1. Vocabulary -- 4.2. Structure -- 4.3. Non-use of address form -- 5. The social organisation of address forms -- 5.1. Nuclear family -- 5.1.1. Brothers and sisters -- 5.1.2. Husband and wife -- 5.1.3. Parents and children -- 5.2. Friends -- 5.3. Non-nuclear family -- 5.4. Non-kin relations -- 5.4.1. Social equals -- 5.4.2. Social inferiors upwards -- 5.4.3. Social superiors downwards -- 6. Two case studies on individual variation -- 6.1. Lady Joan Barrington -- 6.2. Mr Nathaniel Bacon -- 7. Summary and discussion -- 7.1. Nuclear family and friends -- 7.2. Non-nuclear family -- 7.3. Non-kin relations -- 7.5. Diachronic trends -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index of Names and Sources -- Index of Subjects -- The series PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.