Representing what someone else has said is an integral part of spoken and written communication. Speech representation occurs in many contexts from news reports

Representing what someone else has said is an integral part of spoken and written communication. Speech representation occurs in many contexts from news reports

This book is a state-of-the-art overview of English historical pragmatics, covering a range of topics, including pragmatic markers, speech representation, addre

Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they use them in the same way? How did they signal speech act values and how did

This volume provides a diachronic and synchronic overview of linguistic variability and change in involved, speech-related and spoken texts in English. While pr