Figures
2.1Changes in stance marking from 1650 to 1900 in four genres (frequency per 1,000 words)
2.3Text excerpt from The Old Bailey Proceedings Online, April 1725, Vincent Davis (t17250407-9)
2.4Original page image from The Old Bailey Proceedings Online
3.1Distribution of the pragmatic markers what and why in Early Modern English by period
3.2Occurrences of you see constructions. Based on the MED quotation database, the OED quotation database for Early Modern English, and CLMET for Late Modern English
6.1Performative apology expressions in the fiction section of COHA (frequency per million words)
6.4Leave-taking expressions in COHA (frequency per million words)
7.2Terms of abuse on the scale from you to thou cooccurrence in Shakespeare
8.1Drift from elaborated to situation-dependent in essays, fiction, and letters, seventeenth-century to modern period
8.2The religious register, classified by addresser/addressee