Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introducing transhistorical approaches to digital language practices -- Section 1: Rethinking Perspectives -- Introduction to rethinking perspectives -- 1 The rise of the Pragmatic Web: Implications for rethinking meaning and interaction -- 2 Interpreting "historicisation" in the digital context: On the interface of diachronic and synchronic pragmatics -- 3 Spelling in context: A transhistorical pragmatic perspective on orthographic practices in English -- 4 Reflections on historicity, technology and the implications for method in (historical) pragmatics -- Section 2: Historicizing Discourses -- Introduction to historicising discourses -- 5 Towards a transhistorical approach to analysing discourse about and in motion -- 6 "New" media and self-fashioning: The construction of a political persona by Elizabeth I and Donald Trump -- 7 From Rest in Peace to #RIP: Tracing shifts in the language of mourning -- 8 Digital literacies and the long history of the academic article -- 9 Reflections on historicizing discourses: Connections, linkages, continuities -- Section 3: Media Trajectories -- Introduction to media trajectories -- 10 Unstable content, remediated layout: Urban laws in Scotland through manuscript and print -- 11 Visual pragmatics of an early modern book: Printers' paratextual choices in the editions of The School of Vertue -- 12 Paratextual presentation of Christopher St German's Doctor and Student 1528-1886 -- 13 Reflections on visuality and textual reception -- Section 4: New to Old -- Introduction to new to old -- 14 Information design and information structure in the Middle English prose Brut -- 15 Disruptive practice: Multimodality, innovation and standardisation from the medieval to the digital text -- 16 "It makes it more real": A comparative analysis of Twitter use in live blogs and quotations in older news media from a reader response perspective -- 17 New methods, old data: Using digital technologies to explore nineteenth century letter writing practices -- 18 Transhistoricizing multimodality: Reflections on the how-to -- Postscript: You say you want a revolution? Histories and futures of researching the digital, a view from the south -- Index