EARLY MODERN ENGLISH TRIALS
ISSN: 2611-1349
Language: English
Publisher: Paolo Loffredo Editore Srl
Description
Early modern english trials
Pragmatic influences on thou and you
The present book illustrates the design of and analyses the Corpus of Early Modern English Trials (1650-1700), henceforth the EMET, a hi¬ghly specialized historical corpus of trial proceedings. The main pur¬pose of the creation of the above-mentioned corpus is to shed light on the pragmatic aspects of Early Modern spoken English, since trial proceedings are considered records of authentic dialogues (Culpeper and Kytö 2010: 17).
After introducing Early Modern English society and discussing pre¬vious research, which deals with a limited amount of data, the archive consultation phase, the criteria behind the selection of the trials and the technical stages that are necessary for the uploading of a corpus on #LancsBox and its study are illustrated. Then, the EMET itself is presented, and macro (quantitative) and micro (qualitative) analyses – which take into account both pragmatic and sociolinguistic factors – are carried in order to understand the pragmatic influences on T-for¬ms and Y-forms.
