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The book showcases grammatical, pragmatic, and stylistic functions of punctuation, and shows how punctuation can encode emotion, metalinguistic marking, foregro

This volume provides a diachronic and synchronic overview of linguistic variability and change in involved, speech-related and spoken texts in English. While pr

A state-of-the-art overview of English historical pragmatics, covering topics such as speech representation, politeness, and address terms.

Representing what someone else has said is an integral part of spoken and written communication. Speech representation occurs in many contexts from news reports

Sociopragmatics is a rapidly growing field and this is the first ever handbook dedicated to this exciting area of study. Bringing together an international team