The Sociopragmatics of Stance: Community, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch trials
Peter J. Grund
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 329] 2021. ix, 246 pp.
Peter J. Grund
List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter J. Grund plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED)
Merja Kytö, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker
[Not in series, 162] 2011. xxi, 360 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Forensic & legal linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Articles
2020 What it means to describe speech: Pragmatic variation and change in speech descriptors in Late Modern English Late Modern English: Novel encounters, Kytö, Merja and Erik Smitterberg (eds.), pp. 295–314 | Chapter
This article explores the form, frequency, and function of “speech descriptors” (such as softly in “It matters little,” she said, softly; CLMET3.0, A Christmas Carol, Period 2: 1839) in Late Modern English. Drawing on the narrative fiction category in the CLMET3.0 corpus, I show the rise of speech… read more
2020 Chapter 5. Saying, crying, replying, and continuing: Speech reporting expressions in Early Modern English Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö, Jonsson, Ewa and Tove Larsson (eds.), pp. 63–78 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the form, frequency, and function of speech reporting expressions in Early Modern English, such as quod she in “I perceiue now [$ (quod she) $] how mishap doth follow me” (CED, D1FGASCO, 1573). We focus on the use in the prose fiction texts in Periods 1 and 3 in A Corpus… read more
2018 Beyond speech representation: Describing and evaluating speech in Early Modern English prose fiction Dialogues in Diachrony: Celebrating Historical Corpora of Speech-related Texts, Kytö, Merja and Terry Walker (eds.), pp. 265–285 | Article
This article is concerned with “speech descriptors”, markers that describe or evaluate the nature of represented speech, such as very modestly in “The Gentlewoman very modestly bade him welcome” (CED, D2FKIT). The form, frequency and function of such features are charted in Early Modern English… read more
2017 “Speaking base approbious words”: Speech representation in Early Modern English witness depositions Journal of Historical Pragmatics 18:1, pp. 1–29 | Article
This paper explores the representation of speech in Early Modern English witness depositions. We demonstrate that Semino and Short’s (2004) framework of description, which has for the most part been used in explorations of present-day texts, is generally applicable to our historical data. Our… read more
2013 “I saw ye Child burning in ye fire”: Evidentiality in Early Modern English witness depositions Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context, Jucker, Andreas H., Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho (eds.), pp. 319–342 | Article
This article explores the use of evidentials, or markers of source of information in witness depositions from England in the period 1680–1710. By comparing the results with those from a previous study on the Salem witch trials (Grund 2012), I point to significant similarities in the linguistic… read more
2011 Glossary Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED), Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker, pp. 289–322 | Miscellaneous
2011 5. Scribes and scribal practices Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED), Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker, pp. 147–180 | Chapter
2011 6. The languages of the depositions Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED), Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker, pp. 181–214 | Chapter
2011 2. Genre characteristics Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED), Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker, pp. 15–56 | Chapter
2011 9. Conclusion Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED), Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker, pp. 283–287 | Chapter
2011 1. Introduction Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED), Kytö, Merja, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker, pp. 1–14 | Chapter
2005 Abstracts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10:2, pp. 277–281 | Miscellaneous
2005 Abstracts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10:1, pp. 115–117 | Miscellaneous