“speaking base approbious words”: Speech Representation in Early Modern English Witness Depositions
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2016Author
Walker, Terry
Grund, Peter
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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This article explores the representation of speech in Early Modern English witness depositions. We demonstrate
that Semino and Short’s (2004) framework of description, which has for the most part been used in explorations
of present-day texts, is generally applicable to our historical data. Our study shows that factors such as the
importance of the evidence cited and the clarity of the deposition narrative were crucial considerations in
representing speech in different contexts.
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This is the author's accepted manuscript. Copyright 2016, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Contact the publisher for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form.
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Walker, Terry, and Peter J. Grund. “‘speaking base approbious words’: Speech
Representation in Early Modern English Witness Depositions.” Journal of Historical
Pragmatics
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