Legal Pragmatics
Edited by Dennis Kurzon and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 288] 2018. viii, 278 pp.
Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
List of John Benjamins publications for which Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Forensic & legal linguistics | Pragmatics
Historical Courtroom Discourse
Edited by Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 7:2 (2006) 160 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Articles
2018 Chapter 3. Implicatures in Early Modern English courtroom records Legal Pragmatics, Kurzon, Dennis and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky (eds.), pp. 65–80 | Chapter
This paper studies the role of conversational implicatures in the 17th century courtroom discourse. My hypothesis is that the use of the literal vs. non-literal language runs along the distinction between the powerless interrogated (the defendant, the witnesses) and the powerful interrogators… read more
2018 Introduction Legal Pragmatics, Kurzon, Dennis and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
2010 Power in Early Modern English courtroom discourse Discourses in Interaction, Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Marjut Johansson and Mia Raitaniemi (eds.), pp. 153–172 | Article
The paper discusses power in Early Modern English courtroom. A few levels of linguistic analysis are examined for the occurrence of the exponents of power. As regards lexicon, it is the specific vocabulary which creates the social distance between the interrogators and the interrogated. My… read more
2006 Impoliteness in Early Modern English courtroom discourse Historical Courtroom Discourse, Kryk-Kastovsky, Barbara (ed.), pp. 213–243 | Article
The paper investigates whether the notion of impoliteness worked out for synchronic pragmatics is also applicable in diachronic pragmatics. An analysis of two Early Modern English court trial records demonstrates that the answer is positive provided some new dimensions are added. My model of… read more
2006 Historical courtroom discourse: Introduction Historical Courtroom Discourse, Kryk-Kastovsky, Barbara (ed.), pp. 163–179 | Article
2005 Review of Hiltunen & Watanabe (2004): Approaches to Style and Discourse in English The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Corinne Rossari (eds.), pp. 336–343 | Review
2000 Representations of orality in Early Modern English trial records Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1:2, pp. 201–230 | Article
The paper aims at answering some questions essential for a historical pragmaticist. It examines to what extent the written records available nowadays reflect the language spoken in the past, i.e. what their degree of orality is. The data are two Early Modern English texts: The trial of Titus… read more
1997 Surprise, surprise: The iconicity-conventionality scale of emotions The Language of Emotions: Conceptualization, expression, and theoretical foundation, Niemeier, Susanne and René Dirven † (eds.), pp. 155 ff. | Article
1995 Demonstratives in Early Modern English Letters Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English, Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.), pp. 329 ff. | Article
1991 Deictic pronouns as anaphora in English and Polish Further Insights into Contrastive Analysis, Fisiak, Jacek (ed.), pp. 461 ff. | Article
1991 On reference and deixis Levels of Linguistic Adaptation: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987, Verschueren, Jef (ed.), pp. 185 ff. | Article