Historical Sociopragmatics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- About the Authors -- Historical sociopragmatics -- 1. What is sociopragmatics? -- 2. What is historical sociopragmatics? -- 3. The chapters -- Notes -- References -- Structures and expectations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Theory and method -- 3.1 Sociopragmatics and local contexts -- 3.2 Critical discourse analysis -- 3.3 Frame analysis -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 Micro analysis of text -- 4.2 Micro analysis of discursive practice -- 4.3 Micro analysis of social practice -- 5. Micro analysis in a macro context: scribal practices -- 5.1 Variation in the opening formulae -- 5.2 The health formula -- 5.3 Syntactic variation in the openings -- 5.4 Variation in the closing formulae -- 6. Conclusion and discussion -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- Sources -- References -- The sociopragmatics of a lovers' spat -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Relevance and historical pragmatic analysis -- 3. Contexts of the correspondence -- 4. The sociopragmatics of an eighteenth-century courtship -- 4.1 Edward pursues Mary -- 4.2 Contextual interlude -- 4.3 Mary resists Edward -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Appendix -- Altering distance and defining authority -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Social deixis and referential terms -- 2.1 Distance, authority, and group membership -- 2.2 Shared knowledge and reference -- 3. Material: Letters and journals -- 4. Referential terms in the material -- 4.1 Case study 1: Third-person referential friend -- 4.2 Case study 2: Sequences of self- and addressee-oriented third-person reference -- 5. On the functions of referential terms in the material -- 5.1 Friends and familiars -- 5.2 Addressee- and self-oriented reference in the third person -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Sources -- References.

Variation and change in patterns of self-reference in early English correspondence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Self-reference and indexicality in early English correspondence -- 3. Sixteenth- and eighteenth-century gentlemen's letters -- 4. Increasing self-reference -- 5. I-clusters -- 5.1 Three-word I-clusters -- 5.2 I + verb clusters -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Sources -- References -- Identifying key sociophilological usage in plays and trial proceedings (1640-1760) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Sociopragmatic Corpus -- 2.1 The dyads to be investigated in this study -- 3. Using text analysis tools to explore keyness -- 3.1 The Historical Tagger -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 Female examinees to examiners in trial proceedings -- 4.2 Male examinees to examiners in trial proceedings -- 4.3 Examiners to examinees in trial proceedings -- 4.4 Mistress to servant in play-texts -- 4.5 Master to servant in play-texts -- 5. Reviewing the sociophilological approach -- 6. A final word about annotation and "keyness" -- Notes -- References -- Index.