Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Online-first articles

The following articles have been published online-first, and have not yet been published in an issue.

20 December 2024

Anyway in Irish English: The development of a pragmatic marker
Raymond Hickey | 27 pp.

3 December 2024

“Stay safe!” — A wish, advice, or an order? Pragmatic variability and change in times of a pandemic
Eva Ogiermann | 33 pp.

19 November 2024

From affirmation to concession: Diachrony of Modern Chinese concessive connective ke shì (‘but’) and its implications for connective formation
Haiping Long and Weihua Zhou | 38 pp.

17 October 2024

“I have come to the conclusion that you must die” Threats in Late Modern English threatening letters
Theresa Neumaier | 26 pp.

10 October 2024

Review of Jucker (2020): Politeness in the History of English: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day
Mel Evans | 4 pp.

7 October 2024

Review of Paternoster (2022): Historical Etiquette: Etiquette Books in Nineteenth-Century Western Cultures
Dariusz Krawczyk | 6 pp.
Review of Brinton (2023): Pragmatics in the History of English
Yuanyu Yang and Qiao Huang | 9 pp.

13 September 2024

(Im)Politeness in Vedic Sanskrit: Indirectness and terms of address in Vedic recorded direct speech
Francisco Javier Rubio Orecilla | 31 pp.

27 August 2024

Presenting manuscript tables and diagrams to the Middle English reader
Matti Peikola and Mari-Liisa Varila | 31 pp.

2 July 2024

“Yet ar ye not lyche, for thu art a fals strumpet” Pronominal terms of address in The Book of Margery Kempe
Olga Timofeeva and Leena Kahlas-Tarkka | 30 pp.

16 April 2024

Negotiating converso identities in the inquisition courtroom: Impoliteness and self-politeness in the 1568–1569 trial of Catarina de Orta
Javier E. Díaz-Vera | 25 pp.

29 February 2024

Chinese “face”-related expressions in Peking and Teochew Opera scripts: A historical contrastive pragmatic inquiry
Jiejun Chen, Juliane House and Dániel Z. Kádár | 31 pp.