Pragmatics
- Bech, Kristin: The anaphoric status of initial adjuncts in the history
of English
- Busse, Beatrix: A diachronic
approach to speech, writing and thought presentation
- Chaemsaithong, Krisda: Multiple Voices in Courtroom Narratives: The
Case of Expert Witnesses
- Dossena, Marina: (Re)constructed Eloquence. Rhetorical and pragmatic
strategies in the speeches of Native Americans as reported by 19th-century
commentators
- Fitzmaurice, Susan Mary: Semantic-pragmatic change, ideology and race
in the history of English in Zimbabwe
- Grund, Peter: “I saw y=e= Child burning in y=e= fire”: Evidentiality
in Early Modern English Witness Depositions
- Higashiizumi, Yuko: The development of causal clauses and
insubordination: The case of because-clauses in Modern English
- Iyeiri, Yoko: Adverbial Clauses in the Paston Letters
- Kahlas-Tarkka, Leena: “I shall not speak a word: but I will speak
satan”: socio-pragmatic features of trial discourse in Salem 1692
- Kohnen, Thomas: Speech-act conventions in 19th- and 20th-century
England: Focus on directives
- Lee, Ji Won: Much more than a lot: polarity sensitivity of much and many over time and across
registers
- Lehto, Anu: Complexity and established genre conventions in Early
Modern English proclamations
- Leitner, Magdalena: Towards (Im)politeness in Early Scottish Texts
between Private and Public
- Lutzky, Ursula: Early Modern English discourse markers - a feature of
female speech?
- Mantlik, Annette: Functions of shell-noun-constructions historically:
'fact' and 'problem'
- Mäkinen, Martti: Why was persuasion needed in early modern medical
instructional texts?
- Nakayasu, Minako: Shrighte Emelye, and howleth Palamon: Tense
alternation in Chaucer
- Nevala, Minna: Barbers, beggers and hungry spys: On social
identification of criminals in early English
- Oinonen, Raisa: Directives and politeness: A quantitative study on
Early Modern English correspondence
- Petré, Peter: Changing textual functions of 'be Ving' from Old to
Middle English
- Ratia, Maura: Manifestations of societal dichotomies in plague texts
of the Stuart period
- Ritt, Nikolaus; Zehentner, Eva: Subjectification and verbs of the type to cope
(with)
- Roads, Judith: Early Modern English Quaker language: this paper is
'beyond thee'
- Rütten, Tanja: Inscriptions of explicit performatives in written
language: towards a taxonomy of performative utterances in historical data
- Salmi, Hanna: Speech act verbs in Early Modern English debate
poetry
- Shibasaki, Reijirou: On the rise of (the) point is, ... as discourse
marker in the history of American English
- Skaffari, Janne; Carroll, Ruth; Salmi, Hanna; Varila, Mari-Liisa; Peikola, Matti;
Hiltunen, Risto: Pragmatic motivations for visual choices in the pages
of the Polychronicon
- Suhr, Carla Maria: A third axis to Koch & Oesterreicher:
Paratextual features
- Sylwanowicz, Marta: Treasure of pore men, countrymans friend or
gentlewomans companion? – on the use of interpersonal strategies in English medical
compilations.
- Taavitsainen, Irma: Period style and medical discourse for
professional and lay audiences 1665-1800
- Walker, Terry (1); Grund, Peter (2): “w=th= many vnsemely woordES”:
Speech Representation and the Pragmatics of Speech in 16th-Century Witness
Depositions
- Williams, Graham Trevor (1); Sairio, Anni (2): Ironic Insults as
In-group Bonding: A Diachronic Investigation, c.1400-1800
- Włodarczyk, Matylda: Histories from below? The case of South African
English
- Yoshikawa, Fumiko: Adverbial Connectors and Topic Shift in Middle
English Religious Prose