Publications

Publication details [#51006]

Hiltunen, Risto and Kathleen L. Doty. 2009. Formulaic discourse and speech acts in the witchcraft trial records of Salem, 1692. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (3) : 458–469.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom conversation | form | formulaic expression | function | speech act

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article employs the 1692 Salem witchcraft trial documents to explore the link between function and form in participants' expression of speech acts at various moments of the legal process.