Pragmatic Aspects of Reported Speech
The Case of Early Modern English Courtroom Discourse
1st Edition
Published on 28. December 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 205 pages
978-3-631-55344-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Frankfurt a.M.
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
8 fig., 37 tab.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
296 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-55344-2 (9783631553442)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
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.
Content
Contents: Reported Speech - Historical Pragmatics - Early Modern English - Courtroom - Discourse - Stance - Bad Data Problem - Leech and Short Model (1981).