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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. Focusing on the community of practice that developed during the witch trials in Salem (Massach...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 329. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "This Is the first to bee Read" : introduction
- "Testifieth and saith" : the Salem witch trial witness depositions
- "we thought we did doe well" : the Salem witch trials as a community of practice
- "I verily beleue in my hart that martha Carrier is a most dreadfull wicth" : methodology and overview of linguistic strategies of stance
- "in A sudden, terible, & strange, unusuall maner" : evaluating experience
- "I haue ben most greviously affleted" : intensifying experience
- "I saw the Apperishtion of Rebekah nurs" : sourcing experience
- "we perceiued hir hellish temtations by hir loud outcries" : stance profiles
- "and further saith not" : conclusion
- Appendix: RSWH depositions included in the study.