Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English

1. Preface and acknowledgements; 2. Introduction (by Hubler, Axel); 3. Part 1. Metacommunicative profiles of communicative genres; 4. 1.1 Cross-sectional studies; 5. Sociability: Conversation and the performance of friendship in early eighteenth-century letters (by Fitzmaurice, Susan); 6. "I write you these few lines": Metacommunication and pragmatics in nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants' letters (by Dossena, Marina); 7. 1.2 Longitudinal studies; 8. Inscribed orality and the end of a discourse archive: Metapragmatic and metadiscursive expressions in the Peterborough Chronicle (by Watts, Richard J.); 9. Managing disputes with civility: On seventeenth-century argumentative discourse (by Gotti, Maurizio); 10. The metapragmatics of civilized belligerence (by Verschueren, Jef); 11. The metapragmatics of hoaxing: Tracking a genre label from Edgar Allan Poe to Web 2.0 (by Heyd, Theresa); 12. From speaker and hearer to chatter, blogger and user: The changing metacommunicative lexicon in computer-mediated communication (by Bublitz, Wolfram); 13. Part 2. Metacommunicative lexical sets; 14. Now as a text deictic feature in Late Medieval and Early Modern English medical writing (by Taavitsainen, Irma); 15. Performative and non-performative uses of speech-act verbs in the history of English (by Kohnen, Thomas); 16. Verbs of answering revisited: A corpus-based study of their pragmatic development (by Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie); 17. A lexical approach to paralinguistic communication of the past (by Hubler, Axel); 18. Part 3. (Meta-)communicative ethics and ideologies; 19. Historical evidence of communicative maxims (by Brock, Alexander); 20. Name index; 21. Subject index