33.651, Books: The Sociopragmatics of Stance: Grund

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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:08:47
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Sociopragmatics of Stance: Grund

 


Title: The Sociopragmatics of Stance 
Subtitle: Community, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch
trials 
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 329  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.329 


Author: Peter J. Grund

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258236 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258236 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258236 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210593 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210593 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210593 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 100.70


Abstract:

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. Focusing on the
community of practice that developed during the witch trials in Salem
(Massachusetts) in 1692–1693, it showcases how witnesses and the recorders of
their ca. 450 depositions deployed linguistic features to signal the
evaluation of experiences with alleged witchcraft, the intensification of
those experiences, and the sources of the witnesses’ knowledge. The resulting
stance profiles for groups of depositions, witnesses, and recorders highlight
varying strategies of claiming, supporting, and boosting the importance of the
evidence and the role of the witnesses within the community of practice. With
its innovative focus on sociopragmatic variation in a historical community,
the book demonstrates the essential contribution of synchronic-historical
research to the analysis, description, and theorization of stance and
historical English more broadly.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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