In:The Sociopragmatics of Stance: Community, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch trials
Peter J. Grund
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 329] 2021
► pp. 113–144
Chapter 6“I haue ben most greviously affleted”
Intensifying experience
Published online: 18 November 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.329.c6
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.329.c6
Article outline
- 6.1Introduction
- 6.2Degree modifiers: Background and methodology
- 6.3The nature of degrees
- 6.3.1Overall patterns of degree modification in the Salem depositions
- 6.3.2Multal modifiers
- 6.3.2.1Overall patterns
- 6.3.2.2Physical appearance
- 6.3.2.3Actions and behaviors
- 6.3.2.4Speech acts
- 6.3.2.5Measurements
- 6.3.2.6Physical states
- 6.3.2.7Mental properties
- 6.3.2.8Mental faculties
- 6.3.2.9Witchcraft
- 6.3.3Maximal modifiers
- 6.3.4Approximating modifiers
- 6.3.5Paucal, minimal, moderate, relative, and negated multal and maximal modifiers
- 6.4Conclusion
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