Pragmatic Aspects of Reported Speech: The Case of Early Modern English Courtroom Discourse

ISBN-13: 9783631553442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 205 str.

Matylda Wlodarczyk

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Contents : Reported Speech - Historical Pragmatics - Early Modern English - Courtroom - Discourse - Stance - Bad Data Problem - Leech and Short Model (1981).

O autorze

The Author: Matylda Wlodarczyk is a lecturer in the School of English at the University of Poznan (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.