| Autore |
Archer Dawn
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c2005
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (388 p.)
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| Disciplina |
347.42/075
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| Collana |
Pragmatics & beyond
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| Soggetto topico |
Examination of witnesses - England - History - 18th century
Examination of witnesses - England - History - 17th century
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| ISBN |
1-282-15672-1
9786612156724
90-272-9443-7
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Questions and Answers in the English Courtroom (1640-1760) -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC Data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- List of tables and figures -- 1. Investigating the English historical courtroom -- 1.1 A brief outline of the book's focus and the approach taken -- 1.2 Pragmatics, historical pragmatics and sociopragmatics: Some definitions -- 1.3 The data and methodological problems facing historical pragmaticians -- 1.4 Availability of historical courtroom data -- 1.5 Primary objectives of this study -- 1.6 How I intend to proceed -- 2. The characteristics of questions and answers -- 2.1 Defining questions and answers -- 2.2 What constitutes a 'question'? -- 2.3 What constitutes an 'answer'? -- 2.4 Questions and answers in an historical context -- 2.5 Insights gained -- 3. Questioning procedures in courtrooms -- 3.1 Courtroom talk as 'activity type' -- 3.2 The courtroom today -- 3.3 Questioning strategies in the courtroom -- 3.4 The EarlyModern English courtroom -- 3.5 Review of the linguistic literature relating to historical courtroom discourse -- 3.6 Insights gained -- 4. A systematic approach to context identification and analysis -- 4.1 Rationale behind methodology -- 4.2 Description of the sociopragmatic corpus (SPC) -- 4.3 The sociopragmatic annotation scheme -- 4.4 Annotation scheme for questions and answers -- 4.5 Some final comments -- 5. Questions in the historical courtroom (1640-1760) -- 5.1 A sociopragmatic account of courtroom questions -- 5.2 The form of questions in the SPC -- 5.3 Indirect interrogatives -- 5.4 Questions as a means of control -- 5.5 Questions as part of a questioning sequence -- 5.6 Examinations-in-chief and cross-examinations -- 5.7 A sociopragmatic approach to questions: Investigating user as well as use -- 6. Interactional intent of participants' utterances.
6.1 Investigating questions from the perspective of the user -- 6.2 Participant roles evidenced in the SPC -- 6.3 The five main questioners in the EmodE courtroom (1640-1760): The courts, the prosecution counsels, the judges, the defence counsels and the defendants -- 6.4 Insights gained -- 7. Judicial examiners' questioning strategies -- 7.1 Examiners' questions - a manifestation of power? -- 7.2 The judge -- 7.3 The Court and the recorder -- 7.4 The judges' interaction with witnesses (1640-1760) -- 7.5 Jeffreys' interaction with witnesses -- 7.6 The Courts' interaction with witnesses (1720-1760) -- 7.7 The judges' interaction with defendants (1640-1760) -- 7.8 Insights gained -- 8. Lawyers' questioning strategies (1640-1760) -- 8.1 The emergence of counsel as major players? -- 8.2 Strategies of the prosecution counsels -- 8.3 Strategies of the defence counsels (1680-1760) -- 8.4 The prosecution counsels' interaction with witnesses (1640-1760) -- 8.5 The defence counsels' interaction with the witnesses -- 8.6 Questioning the questioners -- 8.7 Insights gained -- 9. Defendants' strategies (1640-1760) -- 9.1 The multiple discourse goals of defendants -- 9.2 The defendants' strategies -- 9.3 Eliciting devices utilised by defendants when interacting with judges and witnesses -- 9.4 The defendants' use of questions with witnesses and judges -- 9.5 Defendants' 'answering' strategies -- 9.6 Insights gained -- 10. Witnesses' 'answering' strategies (1640-1760) -- 10.1 The witnesses' role as 'answerer' -- 10.2 The strategies of the witnesses -- 10.3 Witnesses' interaction with the judges (1640-1719) -- 10.4 Witnesses' interaction with the lawyers (1680-1719) -- 10.5 The witnesses' interaction with the Court and defendants (1720-1760) -- 10.6 Insights gained -- 11. Courtroom interaction in the historical period.
11.1 Participants' use of 'requests', 'requires' and 'counsels' -- 11.2 The judges' interaction with defendants (1640-1679) -- 11.3 The judges' use of 'requires' -- 11.4 The defendants' use of 'requests' -- 11.5 The prosecution counsels' use of 'requests' -- 11.6 The defendants' use of 'requires' and 'counsels' -- 11.7 Insights gained -- 12. Concluding comments -- 12.1 Approach adopted in this work -- 12.2 1640-1760: A period of emerging and changing roles -- 12.3 The efficacy of using contemporary approaches to examine historical data -- 12.4 Questions: Not just the preserve of the primary examiners -- 12.5 The need to go beyond a study of questions and answers -- 12.6 Implications for questions generally -- 12.7 Implications for answers -- 12.8 A corpus-based approach to pragmatic phenomena: How successful? -- 12.9 Plans to expand the trial texts in the Sociopragmatic Corpus -- Notes -- Appendix 1 -- Biographical details for participants -- Appendix 2 -- Bibliography -- Author index -- Subject index -- the Pragmatics & -- Beyond New Series.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809506203321 |
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Questions and answers in the English courtroom (1640-1760) [[electronic resource] ] : a sociopragmatic analysis / / Dawn Archer
