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The Sociopragmatics of Stance: Community, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch trialsPeter J. Grund
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 329] 2021
► pp. v–viii
Peter J. Grund
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 329] 2021
► pp. v–viii
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1.“this Is the first to bee Read”: Introduction
1.1Introduction and aims
1.2Research context and gaps
1.3The Salem witch trials: A brief overview
1.4Chapter outline
Chapter 2.“Testifieth and saith”: The Salem witch trial witness depositions
2.1Introduction
2.2Production and use
2.3The Salem recorders
2.4The voices of the depositions
2.5The corpus of Salem witness depositions
2.6Conclusion
Chapter 3.“we thought we did doe well”: The Salem witch trials as a community of practice
3.1Introduction
3.2Communities
3.3The Salem witch trials and the CoP framework
3.3.1Joint enterprise
3.3.2Mutual engagement
3.3.3Shared repertoire
3.3.4Membership
3.3.5Summary and challenges
3.4Conclusion
Chapter 4.“I verily beleue in my hart that martha carrier is a most dreadfull
wicth”: Methodology and overview of linguistic strategies of stance
4.1Introduction
4.2Taking a stance on stance
4.2.1Scope and stance features
4.2.2Discovering stance
4.2.3Historical stance
4.3Conclusion
Chapter 5.“in A sudden, terible, & strange, unusuall maner”: Evaluating experience
5.1Introduction
5.2Stance adjectives and beyond
5.3Evaluating experience
5.3.1Evaluating the central event
5.3.1.1Disease, death, strangeness, and fright
5.3.1.2Affliction
5.3.2Evaluating the actors
5.4Conclusion
Chapter 6.“I haue ben most greviously affleted”: Intensifying experience
6.1Introduction
6.2Degree modifiers: Background and methodology
6.3The nature of degrees
6.3.1Overall patterns of degree modification in the Salem
depositions
6.3.2Multal modifiers
6.3.2.1Overall patterns
6.3.2.2Physical appearance
6.3.2.3Actions and behaviors
6.3.2.4Speech acts
6.3.2.5Measurements
6.3.2.6Physical states
6.3.2.7Mental properties
6.3.2.8Mental faculties
6.3.2.9Witchcraft
6.3.3Maximal modifiers
6.3.4Approximating modifiers
6.3.5Paucal, minimal, moderate, relative, and negated multal and maximal
modifiers
6.4Conclusion
Chapter 7.“I saw the Apperishtion of Rebekah nurs”: Sourcing experience
7.1Introduction
7.2Evidentiality: Background and methodology
7.3The nature of evidence
7.3.1Overall patterns of evidentials in the Salem depositions
7.3.2Sensory evidentials
7.3.2.1Vision
7.3.2.2Hearing
7.3.3Inference evidentials
7.3.4Assumption evidentials
7.3.5Quotative evidentials
7.4Conclusion
Chapter 8.“we perceiued hir hellish temtations by hir loud outcries”: Stance profiles
8.1Introduction
8.2Depositions of affliction
8.3Depositions endorsing the accusers
8.4Depositions of mysterious events, disease, death, and suspicious
behavior
8.5Depositions endorsing the accused
8.6Conclusion
Chapter 9.“And further saith not”: Conclusion
9.1Introduction
9.2Stance, sociopragmatics, and CoPs
9.3Stance methodology and synchronic-historical research
9.4Outlook
AppendixRSWH depositions included in the study
References
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