Where authority, speech acts and modality meet: A pragmatic analysis of the trial record of King Charles I

This paper investigates how speakers perform speech acts coordinating with modality in the flux of power in Early Modern courtroom interactions along the lines of historical pragmatics. The text used for analysis is the trial record of King Charles I in the Sociopragmatic corpus, in which the King w...

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Published in:	Linguistics Beyond and Within (LingBaW) Vol. 10
Main Authors:	Minako Nakayasu, Michi Shiina
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin 31.12.2024
Subjects:	authority historical pragmatics modality speech acts trial record
ISSN:	2450-5188
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