Publication: Curses or threats? Debating the power of witches’ words in 17th-century Scottish courtrooms
Curses or threats? Debating the power of witches’ words in 17th-century Scottish courtrooms
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Leitner, M. (2017). Curses or threats? Debating the power of witches’ words in 17th-century Scottish courtrooms. NJES: Nordic Journal of English Studies, 16, 145–170. https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.397
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17th-century Scottish court records present a perspective on witchcraft language that is unavailable in Early Modern English trials, namely that of defence lawyers. This paper offers a discursive analysis of speech act functions attributed by trial parties to alleged witches’ utterances in three 17th-century Scottish witchcraft cases. Culpeper and Semino’s (2000) curse definitions are combined with Jucker and Taavitsainen’s (2000: 74) “pragmatic space” to capture the spectrum of witchcraft speech acts. The examination of metacommunica
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Leitner, M. (2017). Curses or threats? Debating the power of witches’ words in 17th-century Scottish courtrooms. NJES: Nordic Journal of English Studies, 16, 145–170. https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.397
