This book is a corpus-based study examining thou and you in three speech-related genres from 1560–1760, a crucial period in the history of second person singul

This volume provides a comprehensive account of Early Modern English, organized by linguistic level. The volume not only presents detailed outlines of the tradi

This book analyses speech-related genres in Early Modern English, providing ideas of what spoken interaction in earlier times might have been like.

This book looks at mediaeval English drama using the theoretical frameworks of historical sociopragmatics and dialogue analysis. It focuses on the collection of