Efnisyfirlit

• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Note on the Text
• Introduction: Discourse in Old Norse Literature
• When Questions Are Not Questions
• The Quarrel of the Queens and Indirect Aggression
• Sneglu-Halli and the Conflictive Principle
• Felicity Conditions and Conversion Confrontations
• Icelanders and Their Language Abroad
• Proverbs and Poetry as Pragmatic Weapons
• Speech Situations and the Pragmatics of Gender
• Manuscript Genealogy and the Diachrony of Pragmatic Usage in Icelandic Sagas
• Conclusion: Close Context and the Proximity of Pragmatics
• Afterword
• Bibliography
• Index