Impoliteness in early modern english courtroom discourse

Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 213-243

  Kryk Kastovsky, Barbara ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

(covert overt); Address forms; Courtroom discourse; Discourse markers; Early Modern English; Impoliteness; Questioning strategies; Speech act network

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248712501     PISSN: 15665852     EISSN: 15699854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jhp.7.2.04kry     Document Type: Article

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