The Sociopragmatics of Stance : Community, Language, and the Witness Depositions from the Salem Witch Trials.

Intro -- The Sociopragmatics of Stance -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. "this Is the first to bee Read": Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction and aims -- 1.2 Research context and gaps -- 1.3 The Salem witch trials: A brief overview -- 1.4 Chapter outline -- Chapter 2. "Testifieth and saith": The Salem witch trial witness depositions -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Production and use -- 2.3 The Salem recorders -- 2.4 The voices of the depositions -- 2.5 The corpus of Salem witness depositions -- 2.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3. "we thought we did doe well": The Salem witch trials as a community of practice -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Communities -- 3.3 The Salem witch trials and the CoP framework -- 3.3.1 Joint enterprise -- 3.3.2 Mutual engagement -- 3.3.3 Shared repertoire -- 3.3.4 Membership -- 3.3.5 Summary and challenges -- 3.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 4. "I verily beleue in my hart that martha Carrier is a most dreadfull wicth": Methodology and overview of linguistic strategies of stance -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Taking a stance on stance -- 4.2.1 Scope and stance features -- 4.2.2 Discovering stance -- 4.2.3 Historical stance -- 4.3 Conclusion -- Chapter 5. "in A sudden, terible, &amp -- strange, unusuall maner": Evaluating experience -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Stance adjectives and beyond -- 5.3 Evaluating experience -- 5.3.1 Evaluating the central event -- 5.3.1.1 Disease, Death, Strangeness, and Fright -- 5.3.1.2 Affliction -- 5.3.2 Evaluating the actors -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 6. "I haue ben most greviously affleted": Intensifying experience -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Degree modifiers: Background and methodology -- 6.3 The nature of degrees -- 6.3.1 Overall patterns of degree modification in the Salem depositions -- 6.3.2 Multal modifiers -- 6.3.2.1 Overall patterns.

6.3.2.2 Physical appearance -- 6.3.2.3 Actions and behaviors -- 6.3.2.4 Speech acts -- 6.3.2.5 Measurements -- 6.3.2.6 Physical states -- 6.3.2.7 Mental properties -- 6.3.2.8 Mental faculties -- 6.3.2.9 Witchcraft -- 6.3.3 Maximal modifiers -- 6.3.4 Approximating modifiers -- 6.3.5 Paucal, Minimal, Moderate, Relative, and Negated multal and Maximal modifiers -- 6.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 7. "I saw the Apperishtion of Rebekah nurs": Sourcing experience -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Evidentiality: Background and methodology -- 7.3 The nature of evidence -- 7.3.1 Overall patterns of evidentials in the Salem depositions -- 7.3.2 Sensory evidentials -- 7.3.2.1 Vision -- 7.3.2.2 Hearing -- 7.3.3 Inference evidentials -- 7.3.4 Assumption evidentials -- 7.3.5 Quotative evidentials -- 7.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 8. "we perceiued hir hellish temtations by hir loud outcries": Stance profiles -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Depositions of affliction -- 8.3 Depositions endorsing the accusers -- 8.4 Depositions of Mysterious events, Disease, Death, and Suspicious behavior -- 8.5 Depositions endorsing the accused -- 8.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 9. "and further saith not": Conclusion -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Stance, sociopragmatics, and CoPs -- 9.3 Stance methodology and synchronic-historical research -- 9.4 Outlook -- Appendix. RSWH depositions included in the study -- References -- Primary source -- Secondary sources -- Index.

Anchored in historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, this book weaves together a powerful narrative of the significance of stance marking in the history of English.

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