In this chapter we discuss pragmatic variables and their role in socio-historical linguistics
and neighboring fields such as historical pragmatics, comparing them with socio …

The aim of the Handbook of Historical Pragmatics is to provide an up-to-date,
comprehensive account of research in the field, but an additional and most ambitious goal is …

In a broad, sociologically based view of pragmatics, historical pragmatics is a field of study
that wants to understand the patterns of intentional human interaction (as determined by the …

Recent advances in computerised methods of language processing and an increased
interest in the use of electronic sources of data for linguistic research have had a …

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The diversity of approaches that inform the essays in this volume indicates that what we call
historical pragmatics is less well-defined and constrained than the seminal work by Jacobs …

Pragmatics is at present one of the most active and most prolific fields of linguistics. It has
grown at an enormous rate during the last fifteen years or so but it is still, as Verschueren …

During the last two decades, the study of meaning change based in theoretical pragmatics
has come to play an important part in our understanding not only of semantic change and …

How do we, as historical pragmaticians, historical linguists, historical discourse analysts, or
philologists, guarantee that the interpretations and inferences we offer of language forms …

This paper provides an outline of the changes in linguistics that gave rise to historical
pragmatics in the 1990s and that have shaped its development over the twenty years of its …