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Publication details [#51005]

Kryk-Kastovsky, Barbara. 2009. Speech acts in Early Modern English court trials. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (3) : 440–457.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom conversation | historical pragmatics | illocution | speech act | speech act theory

Language as a subject

English, Early-modern

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Using a central notion of speech act network, this study shows that 17th century English courtroom discourse can be efficiently analyzed in terms of diachronic speech act theory.