Journal of Historical Pragmatics

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Editor
ORCID logoDaniela Landert | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | daniela.landert at as.uni-heidelberg.de
Consulting Editor
ORCID logoDawn Archer | Manchester Metropolitan University
Review Editor
ORCID logoKim Ridealgh | University of East Anglia
Founding Editors
ORCID logoAndreas H. Jucker | University of Zurich
ORCID logoIrma Taavitsainen | University of Helsinki
Editorial Assistant
Matthew P. Davies | University of Central Lancashire
The Journal of Historical Pragmatics provides an interdisciplinary forum for theoretical, empirical and methodological work at the intersection of pragmatics and historical linguistics. The editorial focus is on socio-historical and pragmatic aspects of historical texts in their sociocultural context of communication (e.g. conversational principles, politeness strategies, or speech acts) and on diachronic pragmatics as seen in linguistic processes such as grammaticalization or discoursization.

Contributions draw on data from literary or non-literary sources and from any language. In addition to contributions with a strictly pragmatic or discourse analytical perspective, it also includes contributions with a more sociolinguistic or semantic approach. However, the focus of the articles is always on the communicative use of language.

The Journal of Historical Pragmatics contains original articles, research reports and book reviews. Occasionally focus-on issues are published on specific topics within the editorial scope of the journal.

The Journal of Historical Pragmatics invites relevant contributions. Authors are advised to consult the Guidelines. Abstracts of contributions may be sent to both editors, preferably via email.

The Journal of Historical Pragmatics publishes its articles Online First.

ISSN: 1566-5852 | E-ISSN: 1569-9854
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp
Latest articles

17 October 2024

  • “I have come to the conclusion that you must die” : Threats in Late Modern English threatening letters
    Theresa Neumaier
  • 10 October 2024

  • Andreas H. Jucker . 2020. Politeness in the History of English: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day
    Reviewed by Mel Evans
  • 7 October 2024

  • Annick Paternoster . 2022. Historical Etiquette: Etiquette Books in Nineteenth-Century Western Cultures
    Reviewed by Dariusz Krawczyk
  • Laurel J. Brinton . 2023. Pragmatics in the History of English
    Reviewed by Yuanyu Yang Qiao Huang
  • 13 September 2024

  • (Im)Politeness in Vedic Sanskrit : Indirectness and terms of address in Vedic recorded direct speech
    Francisco Javier Rubio Orecilla
  • 29 August 2024

  • Exploring diachronic variation in discernment politeness in Ancient Egyptian
    Kim Ridealgh M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro | JHP 25:3 (2024) pp. 450–466
  • 27 August 2024

  • Presenting manuscript tables and diagrams to the Middle English reader
    Matti Peikola Mari-Liisa Varila
  • 9 August 2024

  • Family, politics and media : Gladstone during the Midlothian campaign, 1879–1880
    Helen Baker Tony McEnery | JHP 25:2 (2024) pp. 329–353
  • Women’s voices in the public sphere : Processes of (discursive) democratisation in London suffrage newspapers
    Birte Bös | JHP 25:2 (2024) pp. 302–328
  • A corpus-pragmatic analysis of linguistic democratisation in the British Hansard : Comparing the two Houses
    Turo Hiltunen Turo Vartiainen | JHP 25:2 (2024) pp. 245–273
  • Colloquialisation : Twenty-five years on
    Christian Mair | JHP 25:2 (2024) pp. 193–214
  • A diachronic corpus-pragmatic approach to democratization : The evolution of newspaper editorials, 1860–1979
    Elena Seoane Lucía Loureiro-Porto | JHP 25:2 (2024) pp. 215–244
  • Speaking for the downtrodden : The pragmatics of pronominal references in 200 years of activist speeches
    Jukka Tyrkkö , Sophie Raineri , Jenni Räikkönen , Alžběta Budirská , Mai Nabawy Amanda Silfver | JHP 25:2 (2024) pp. 274–301
  • Democratisation : How can historical corpus pragmatics contribute to understanding changes in the recent history of English?
    Turo Hiltunen , Turo Vartiainen Jenni Räikkönen | JHP 25:2 (2024) pp. 177–192
  • 8 August 2024

  • Judges’ reformulations in judicial interpretation in Chinese judgments : A comparative analysis
    Liping Zhang Tingting Zhang | JHP 25:3 (2024) pp. 392–418
  • 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 Leena Kahlas-Tarkka
  • 27 June 2024

  • Luis Unceta Gómez Łukasz Berger (eds). Politeness in Ancient Greek and Latin
    Reviewed by Eleanor Dickey | JHP 25:3 (2024) pp. 499–503
  • 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
  • 29 February 2024

  • Chinese “face”-related expressions in Peking and Teochew Opera scripts : A historical contrastive pragmatic inquiry
    Jiejun Chen , Juliane House Dániel Z. Kádár
  • 29 January 2024

  • Formulaic language in Old English prose : A corpus-driven functional analysis
    Anna Cichosz , Łukasz Grabowski Piotr Pęzik | JHP 25:3 (2024) pp. 467–498
  • Politeness, speech acts and socio-cultural change : The expression of gratitude in the history of English
    Alexander Haselow | JHP 25:3 (2024) pp. 419–449
  • 23 November 2023

  • “Ih gebiude dir, wurm!” : Directives in Old Saxon and Old High German
    Valentina Concu | JHP 25:1 (2024) pp. 137–175
  • 20 October 2023

  • The pragmatics of royal discourse in William Shakespeare’s Henry vi
    Urszula Kizelbach | JHP 25:1 (2024) pp. 1–32
  • 11 September 2023

  • Repeated, imagined, hearsay : Representation of reported discourse in eighteenth-century legal testimony
    Jenelle Thomas | JHP 24:2 (2023) pp. 302–326
  • The pragmatic and rhetorical function of perfect doubling in the work of D. V. Coornhert
    Cora van de Poppe Joanna Wall | JHP 24:2 (2023) pp. 245–275
  • 7 September 2023

  • Modal may in requests : A comparison of regional pragmatic variation in Early Modern Scottish and English correspondence
    Christine Elsweiler | JHP 25:3 (2024) pp. 355–391
  • 5 September 2023

  • The rise of what-general extenders in English
    Laurel J. Brinton | JHP 25:1 (2024) pp. 104–136
  • Disenchantment of the word in sixteenth-century Dutch farce
    Femke Kramer | JHP 24:2 (2023) pp. 276–301
  • The history of second-person pronouns in European Portuguese
    Víctor Lara Bermejo | JHP 25:1 (2024) p. 67
  • Story, style, and structure : The second person in early Uruguayan children’s literature
    María Irene Moyna Teresa Blumenthal | JHP 24:2 (2023) pp. 217–244
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    ORCID logoCynthia L. Allen | Australian National University, Canberra
    ORCID logoDawn Archer | Manchester Metropolitan University
    Leslie K. Arnovick | University of British Columbia, Vancouver
    Marcel Bax | University of Groningen
    ORCID logoMarcella Bertuccelli Papi | University of Pisa
    ORCID logoLaurel J. Brinton | University of British Columbia
    ORCID logoJonathan Culpeper | Lancaster University
    ORCID logoSusan Fitzmaurice | University of Sheffield
    Gerd Fritz | Justus-Liebig University, Giessen
    ORCID logoBritt-Louise Gunnarsson | Uppsala University
    Gudrun Held | University of Salzburg
    ORCID logoAndreas H. Jucker | University of Zurich
    ORCID logoTerttu Nevalainen | University of Helsinki
    Noriko O. Onodera | Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo
    Roger D. Sell | Åbo Akademi University
    ORCID logoIrma Taavitsainen | University of Helsinki
    ORCID logoElizabeth Closs Traugott | Stanford University
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    Subjects

    Main BIC Subject

    CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

    Main BISAC Subject

    LAN009010: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative