Providing an ideal introduction to historical pragmatics, this guide gives students a solid grounding in historical pragmatics and teaches the methodology neede

The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (CHECL) surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocati

Uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches, this is an advanced textbook on the study of English historical linguistics.

Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:2 (2009), this is the first book to map out historical sociopragmatics, a multidi

This volume represents a timely collective review and assessment of what it is we do when we do English historical pragmatics or historical discourse analysis.