Constructing witches and spells speech acts and activity types in early modern england

Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 97-116

  Culpeper, Jonathan ^a   Semino, Elena ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937324013     PISSN: 15665852     EISSN: 15699854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jhp.1.1.08cul     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Austin, John L. 1962. How to Do Things with Words. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Second edition 1975.
2. Bach, Kent, and Robert M. Harnish. 1979. Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press.
3. Barber, Laird H. 1979. An Edition of ‘The Late Lancashire Witches’ by Thomas Heywood and Richard Brome. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.
4. Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary. 1987. J. Sinclair (ed.). London: HarperCollins.
5. Culpeper, Jonathan, and Merja Kytö. 1997. Towards a corpus of dialogues, 15501750. In: Heinrich Ramisch and Kenneth Wynne (eds.). Language in Time and Space: Studies in Honour of Wolfgang Viereck on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday (Zeitschriftfür Dialektologie und Linguistik-Beihefte). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 60-73.
6. Danet, Brenda, and Bryna Bogoch. 1992. “Whoever alters this, may God turn his face from him on the day of Judgement”, Curses in Anglo-Saxon legal documents. Journal of American Folklore, 105: 132-65.
7. Ewen, C. L’Estrange (ed.). 1929. Witch Hunting and Witch Trials: The Indictments for Witchcraft from the Records of 1373 Assizes held for the Home Circuit A.D. 1559-1736. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.
8. Favret-Saada, Jeanne. 1980. Witchcraft in the Bocage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
9. Figes, Eva. 1978. Patriarchal Attitudes. London: Virago.
10. Harrison, George B. (ed.). 1929. The Trial of the Lancaster Witches A.D. MDCXII. London: Peter Davies.
11. Larner, Christina. 1984. Witchcraft and Religion: The Politics of Popular Belief. Oxford: Blackwell.
12. Levinson, Stephen C. [1979]1992. Activity types and language. In: Paul Drew and John Heritage (eds.). Talk at Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 66-100.
13. MacFarlane, Alan. 1970. Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: A Regional and Comparative Study. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
14. Notestein, Wallace. 1965. A History of Witchcraft in England. New York: Russell and Russell.
15. Searle, JohnR. 1969. Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
16. Searle, John R. 1979. Expression and Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
17. Thomas, Keith. 1971. Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
18. Traugott, Elizabeth C. 1982. From propositional to textual and expressive meanings: Some semantic-pragmatic aspects of grammaticalization. In: Winfred P Lehmann and Ykov Malkiel (eds.). Perspectives on Historical Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 245-271.
19. Traugott, Elizabeth C. 1989. On the rise of epistemic meanings in English: An example of subjectification in semantic change. Language 65 (1), 31-55.
20. Trevor-Roper Hugh R. 1967. Religion, the Reformation and Social Change. London: Macmillan.
21. Wierzbicka, Anna. 1987. English Speech Act Verbs: A Semantic Dictionary. New York: Academic Press.