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Publication details [#28268]

Doty, Kathleen L. and Risto Hiltunen. 2002. "I will tell, I will tell": Confessional patterns in the Salem Witchcraft Trials, 1692. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3 (2) : 299–335.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

confessing | courtroom | legal text | narrative

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

1566-5852

Journal DOI

10.1075/jhp

Annotation

This paper examines the pragmatic features and the narrative structure and function of confessions made by Salem individuals accused of Witchcraft in 1692.