ISBN 83-7405-167-1

184 pages

The set of contributions, consisting of ten articles divided into two sections, represents two areas of linguistic research: the elaborations on the history of English – both the language of the mother country and its first transoceanic offshoot – as well as present-day pragmatics. Both sections of the volume are bridged by the paper being an example of the new discipline – historical pragmatics. The first section bringing together six contributions dealing with an array of aspects in the development of the English language. The latter section contains four papers in which different methodologies and data are used to describe diverse phenomena pertaining to the broad domain of modern linguistics pragmatics.