Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Journal of Historical Pragmatics
Volume Number: 25
Issue Number: 2
Issue Date: 30/08/2024

Subtitle: Special Issue: Corpus-Pragmatic Studies of Democratization in Public Discourses New perspectives, methods and materials

Main Text:

2024. vi, 177 pp.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Democratisation: How can historical corpus pragmatics contribute to understanding changes in the recent history of English?
Turo Hiltunen, Turo Vartiainen & Jenni Räikkönen | pp. 177–192

Articles

Colloquialisation: Twenty-five years on
Christian Mair | pp. 193–214

A diachronic corpus-pragmatic approach to democratization: The evolution of newspaper editorials, 1860–1979
Elena Seoane & Lucía Loureiro-Porto | pp. 215–244

A corpus-pragmatic analysis of linguistic democratisation in the British Hansard: Comparing the two Houses
Turo Hiltunen & Turo Vartiainen | pp. 245–273

Speaking for the downtrodden: The pragmatics of pronominal references in 200 years of activist speeches
Jukka Tyrkkö, Sophie Raineri, Jenni Räikkönen, Alžběta Budirská, Mai Nabawy & Amanda Silfver | pp. 274–301

Women’s voices in the public sphere: Processes of (discursive) democratisation in London suffrage newspapers
Birte Bös | pp. 302–328

Family, politics and media: Gladstone during the Midlothian campaign, 1879–1880
Helen Baker & Tony McEnery | pp. 329–353

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
Historical Linguistics
Pragmatics