The sociopragmatics of stance : community, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch trials /

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Author / Creator:	Grund, Peter, author.
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]
Description:	1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
Language:	English
Series:	Pragmatics & beyond new series (P&BNS), 0922-842X ; volume 329 Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 329.
Subject:	English language -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- Salem. English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Discourse analysis. Evaluative (Linguistics) Pragmatics. Historical linguistics. Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem. English language -- Early modern -- Discourse analysis. English language -- Social aspects. Evaluative (Linguistics) Historical linguistics. Pragmatics. Trials (Witchcraft) Massachusetts -- Salem.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13586647

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ISBN:	9789027258236 9027258236 9789027210593
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2021).
Summary:	"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 (Massachusetts) in 1692-1693, it showcases how witnesses and the recorders of their ca. 450 depositions deployed linguistic features to signal the evaluation of experiences with alleged witchcraft, the intensification of those experiences, and the sources of the witnesses' knowledge. The resulting stance profiles for groups of depositions, witnesses, and recorders highlight varying strategies of claiming, supporting, and boosting the importance of the evidence and the role of the witnesses within the community of practice. With its innovative focus on sociopragmatic variation in a historical community, the book demonstrates the essential contribution of synchronic-historical research to the analysis, description, and theorization of stance and historical English more broadly"--
Other form:	Print version: Grund, Peter. Sociopragmatics of stance Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021] 9789027210593

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