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Questions and answers in the English courtroom (1640-1760) : a sociopragmatic analysis /
This book belongs to the rapidly growing field of historical pragmatics. More specifically, it aims to lend definition to the area of historical sociopragmatics. It seeks to enhance our understanding of the language of the historical courtroom by documenting changes to the discursive roles of the mo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser., v. 135. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book belongs to the rapidly growing field of historical pragmatics. More specifically, it aims to lend definition to the area of historical sociopragmatics. It seeks to enhance our understanding of the language of the historical courtroom by documenting changes to the discursive roles of the most active participant groups of the English courtroom (e.g. the judges, lawyers, witnesses and defendants) in the period 1640-1760. Although the primary focus is on questions and answers, this book also analyses the use of eliciting and non-eliciting devices (e.g. requests and commands) as a means o. |
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| Notas: | Originally presented as the author's thesis. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 372 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-364) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027294432 9027294437 1282156721 9781282156722 9786612156724 6612156724 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |