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Culpeper, Jonathan, Historical Sociopragmatics .- John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011 .- (Benjamins Current Topics, 31)

The book reviewed was originally published as a special issue of 'Journal of Historical Pragmatics'', 10:2 (2009), as the first book to present different methods and approaches to historical sociopragmatics. Historical sociopragmatics concerns itself with any interaction between specific aspects of social context and particular historical language use that leads to pragmatic meanings. It focuses on historical language use in its situational contexts and analyzes how those situational contexts produce norms which speakers engage in or exploit for pragmatic purposes. It can be either synchronic, describing how language use shapes and is shaped by context at a particular point of time in the past, or diachronic, describing how shifts in language use shape context, shifts in context shape language use, and/or shifts occur in the relationship between language use and context over time. An important issue for historical sociopragmatics concerns the (re)construction of contexts on the basis of written records. The chapters in this book represent a range of ways in which historical sociopragmatics can be understood and investigated. The analyses are based on English texts from the 15th to the 18th century, including a variety of genres such as personal correspondence, trial proceedings and plays.

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