Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marie
linguistlist.org>
Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Journal Title: Journal of Historical Pragmatics Volume Number: 5 Issue Number: 1 Issue Date: 2004 Main text: Articles A critique of Levinson's view of Q- and M-inferences in historical pragmatics Elizabeth Closs Traugott 1-26 Triglossia and pragmatic variety choice in nineteenth-century Bruges: A case study in historical sociolinguistics Wim Vandenbussche 27-47 Rhetorical enargeia and linguistic pragmatics: On speech-reporting strategies in East Slavic medieval hagiography and homiletics Ingunn Lunde 49-80 Grammaticalization of the scalar focus particle lian in Mandarin Chinese Janet Zhiqun Xing 81-106 Historical patterns for the grammatical marking of stance: A cross-register comparison Douglas Biber 107-136 "I wol sterve": Negotiating the issue of a lady's consent in Chaucer's poetry Juhani Rudanko 137-158 "Let mee bee so bold to request you to tell mee": Constructions with let me and the history of English directives Thomas Kohnen 159-173 Book Reviews Review of "Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation" by Gisle Andersen Simone Mueller 175-179 For more information visit http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=JHP_5_1Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue