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In:Earlier North American Englishes
Edited by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers
[Varieties of English Around the World G66] 2022
► pp. 37–64

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Coordination in the courtroom

The uses of and in the records of the Salem witchcraft trials

 | Uppsala University
Published online: 15 July 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g66.03kyt
Abstract
Previous research has shown that clausal and phrasal uses of and pattern in ways characteristic of different text types in both Present-day and early English. Speech-based text types such as witness depositions and trial records are likely to show higher rates of clausal uses than written-based texts such as science and history writing. The present study turns to the uses of and in a unique resource, the records from the Salem witchcraft trials in New England (1692–1693), comprising a range of speech-related and written-based text categories. To enable comparisons between early American English and British English usage, comparative material is drawn from the Helsinki Corpus and the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Material and method
    • 2.1The records of the Salem witchcraft trials
    • 2.2The Salem texts included in the present study
    • 2.3Points of comparison: CED and Helsinki Corpus texts
    • 2.4Coordinating and: Principles of classification and research questions
    • 2.5Frequency analyses
  • 3.Clausal and phrasal uses of and
    • 3.1Proportional use of clausal and phrasal and
    • 3.2Rates of occurrence for clausal and phrasal and
  • 4.and in interactive contexts: Exchange coordination
  • 5.Concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • References
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