The Sociopragmatics of Stance : Community, Language, and the Witness Depositions from the Salem Witch Trials

Anchored in historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, this book weaves together a powerful narrative of the significance of stance marking in the history of English..

Intro -- The Sociopragmatics of Stance -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. "this Is the first to bee Read": Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction and aims -- 1.2 Research context and gaps -- 1.3 The Salem witch trials: A brief overview -- 1.4 Chapter outline -- Chapter 2. "Testifieth and saith": The Salem witch trial witness depositions -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Production and use -- 2.3 The Salem recorders -- 2.4 The voices of the depositions -- 2.5 The corpus of Salem witness depositions -- 2.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3. "we thought we did doe well": The Salem witch trials as a community of practice -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Communities -- 3.3 The Salem witch trials and the CoP framework -- 3.3.1 Joint enterprise -- 3.3.2 Mutual engagement -- 3.3.3 Shared repertoire -- 3.3.4 Membership -- 3.3.5 Summary and challenges -- 3.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 4. "I verily beleue in my hart that martha Carrier is a most dreadfull wicth": Methodology and overview of linguistic strategies of stance -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Taking a stance on stance -- 4.2.1 Scope and stance features -- 4.2.2 Discovering stance -- 4.2.3 Historical stance -- 4.3 Conclusion -- Chapter 5. "in A sudden, terible, &amp -- strange, unusuall maner": Evaluating experience -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Stance adjectives and beyond -- 5.3 Evaluating experience -- 5.3.1 Evaluating the central event -- 5.3.1.1 Disease, Death, Strangeness, and Fright -- 5.3.1.2 Affliction -- 5.3.2 Evaluating the actors -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 6. "I haue ben most greviously affleted": Intensifying experience -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Degree modifiers: Background and methodology -- 6.3 The nature of degrees -- 6.3.1 Overall patterns of degree modification in the Salem depositions -- 6.3.2 Multal modifiers -- 6.3.2.1 Overall patterns..

Medienart:	E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021 ©2021
Erschienen:	Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company ; 2021 ©2021

Weitere Ausgaben:	Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Grund, Peter J., The sociopragmatics of stance]

Reihe:	Pragmatics and Beyond New Ser. - v.329

Sprache:	Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:	Grund, Peter J. [VerfasserIn]

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ISBN:	978-90-272-5823-6

Themen:	Electronic books English language-Early modern, 1500-1700-Discourse analysis English language-Social aspects-Massachusetts-Salem Evaluative (Linguistics) Historical linguistics Pragmatics Trials (Witchcraft)-Massachusetts-Salem

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Umfang:	1 online resource (258 pages)

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PPN (Katalog-ID):	1779680929