Abstract
ABSTRACTThe purpose of this paper is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the spatio-temporal systems in the genre of letters along the lines of historical pragmatics and discourse analysis. The corpus consists of letters selected from the Paston Letters edited by Davis. The present paper first carries out a statistical analysis of how frequently the elements of space and time are employed. An examination of the discourse then shows how these elements are related with each other in the integrated spatio-temporal domain, and how these relationships change in discourse. This research shows how the Pastons interacted with the systems of space and time, making a notable contribution to the pragmatic study of letters in Middle English.
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