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Publication details [#28257]

Archer, Dawn. 2002. "Can innocent people be guilty?": A sociopragmatic analysis of examination transcripts from the salem witchcraft trials. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3 (1) : 1–30.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom conversation | discourse analysis | history | question | response

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

1566-5852

Journal DOI

10.1075/jhp

Annotation

This paper constitutes a historical sociopragmatic approach to courtroom interaction in the Salem witchcraft trials, focusing on the magistrates' questions and the 'reality paradigms' between examiner and accused.