Questions and answers in the English courtroom (1640-1760) : a sociopragmatic analysis / Dawn Archer.

This book belongs to the rapidly growing field of historical pragmatics. More specifically, it aims to lend definition to the area of historical sociopragmatics. It seeks to enhance our understanding of the language of the historical courtroom by documenting changes to the discursive roles of the mo...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Archer, Dawn.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2005.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., v. 135.
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490 1 |a Pragmatics & beyond,  |x 0922-842X ;  |v new ser., v. 135 
500 |a Originally presented as the author's thesis. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-364) and indexes. 
505 0 |a Questions and Answers in the English Courtroom (1640-1760); Editorial page; Title page; LCC Data; Table of contents; Preface; List of tables and figures; 1. Investigating the English historical courtroom; 2. The characteristics of questions and answers; 3. Questioning procedures in courtrooms; 4. A systematic approach to context identification and analysis; 5. Questions in the historical courtroom (1640-1760); 6. Interactional intent of participants' utterances; 7. Judicial examiners' questioning strategies; 8. Lawyers' questioning strategies (1640-1760); 9. Defendants' strategies (1640-1760). 
520 |a This book belongs to the rapidly growing field of historical pragmatics. More specifically, it aims to lend definition to the area of historical sociopragmatics. It seeks to enhance our understanding of the language of the historical courtroom by documenting changes to the discursive roles of the most active participant groups of the English courtroom (e.g. the judges, lawyers, witnesses and defendants) in the period 1640-1760. Although the primary focus is on questions and answers, this book also analyses the use of eliciting and non-eliciting devices (e.g. requests and commands) as a means o. 
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