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Title: Pragmatic Aspects of Reported Speech

Pragmatic Aspects of Reported Speech

The Case of Early Modern English Courtroom Discourse

by Matylda Wlodarczyk (Author)
©2007 Thesis XII, 205 Pages
Linguistics
Series: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, Volume 17

Summary

This book focuses on historical pragmatics. The author presents the use of reported speech in the Early Modern English records of a state trial of the Elizabethan period. It is worthy of note that the few acquitted defendants were more efficient in the application of manipulative reported speech strategies. The results of qualitative and quantitative analyses confirm that reported speech is a marker of stance.

Details

Pages
XII, 205
Year
2007
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631553442
Language
English
Keywords
Indirekte Rede Historical Linguistics Englisch Pragmatik Historical Pragmatics Courtroom Discourse Bad Data Problem
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2007. XII, 205 pp., 8 fig., 37 tab.

Biographical notes

Matylda Wlodarczyk (Author)

The Author: Matylda Włodarczyk is a lecturer in the School of English at the University of Poznań (Poland). Her research interests concentrate on historical pragmatics and discourse studies. She has published on Middle and Early Modern English pragmatics and on the history of binomial phrases.

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