EAN: 9783034311106

THE LANGUAGE OF DEFENDANTS IN THE 17 TH -CENTUR...

This volume analyses the defence system in the 17th-century English courtroom and sees how
defendants attempted to construct their discourse identity and articulate their defence in the
arraignment section and in the evidence phase of the trial. Drawing upon theories from
socio-pragmatics and (critical) discourse analysis the book investigates the complex face-work
dynamics operating between defendants and professionals witnesses  the main defence strategies
adopted in the evidence phase and - at the author-readership discourse level - the way in which
Royalist defendants were represented in Royalist accounts in the turbulent years of the Civil
War. The author draws on a rich variety of trial texts: from high treason to religious
subversion  from murder to felony and misdemeanour. In each case the defendant's discourse
behaviour is scrutinised in relation to historical  socio-cultural and institutional variables.
In its double focus on the defendants' interactional role in the trial and their representation
in Royalist accounts  the book offers a valuable reading for historical courtroom linguists 
legal historians and researchers in the field of language  ideology and political propaganda in
the early modern period.

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