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Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Volume 8, Issue 1 (2007)

2007. 160 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 6 February 2007

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.8.1

Table of Contents

Articles
The sullen and the talkative: Discourse strategies in the Salem examinations Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Matti Rissanen	1–24
Telling tales: The role of scribes in constructing the discourse of the Salem witchcraft trials Kathleen L. Doty	25–41
Trial discourse and manuscript context: Scribal profiles in the Salem witchcraft records Risto Hiltunen and Matti Peikola	43–68
A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change Kate Beeching	69–108
Concepts for analyzing deception in discourse intended to be persuasive: Two case studies from Shakespearean drama Juhani Rudanko	109–126
Reviews
Review of Blake (2002): A Grammar of Shakespeare’s Language & Hope (2003): Shakespeare’s Grammar Reviewed by Ulrich Busse	127–137
Review of Burke (2004): Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe Reviewed by Minna Palander-Collin	137–143
Review of Nevalainen & Raumolin-Brunberg (2003): Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England Reviewed by Dieter Stein	143–146
Review of Smitterberg (2005): The Progressive in Nineteenth-Century English. A Process of Integration Reviewed by Sebastian Hoffmann	146–152

Subjects and metadata

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Historical linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General