EARLY MODERN ENGLISH TRIALS
ISSN: 2611-1349
Language: English
Publisher: Paolo Loffredo Editore Srl
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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.