Pragmatic markers as implicit emotive anchoring
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John Wilson✝
Abstract
This chapter analyses pragmatic markers within survivor depositions taken after the 1641 rebellion in Ireland. Specifically, we are concerned with those markers which modify or delimit evidentiality, that is degrees of commitment to participant claims or statements. In this way we re-evaluate the ‘truth-as-evidence’ nature of the depositions and query critical views of the corpus as hearsay, propaganda and a crude form of insurance claim. This shall also highlight a pragmatic distinction between legal and therapeutic disclosure, opening up new avenues for pragmatic analysis of what we will call ‘the victims’ voice’.
Abstract
This chapter analyses pragmatic markers within survivor depositions taken after the 1641 rebellion in Ireland. Specifically, we are concerned with those markers which modify or delimit evidentiality, that is degrees of commitment to participant claims or statements. In this way we re-evaluate the ‘truth-as-evidence’ nature of the depositions and query critical views of the corpus as hearsay, propaganda and a crude form of insurance claim. This shall also highlight a pragmatic distinction between legal and therapeutic disclosure, opening up new avenues for pragmatic analysis of what we will call ‘the victims’ voice’.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- The Pragmatics of Irish English and Irish 17
- “I always think of people here, you know, saying ‘like’ after every sentence” 37
- A corpus-based investigation of pragmatic markers and sociolinguistic variation in Irish English 65
- Kind of and sort of 89
- A comparative study of the pragmatic marker like in Irish English and in south-eastern varieties of British English 114
- “Actually, it’s unfair to say that I was throwing stones” 135
- “’Tis mad, yeah” 156
- Turn initiators in professional encounters 176
- “And your wedding is the twenty-second <.> of June is it?” 203
- “Hurry up baby son all the boys is finished their breakfast” 229
- Pragmatic markers as implicit emotive anchoring 248
- “Sure this is a great country for drink and rowing at elections” 270
- Blathering Beauties 292
- Pragmatic markers in contemporary radio advertising in Ireland 318
- “Yeah well, probably, you know I wasn’t that big into school, you know” 348
- “There’s, like, total silence again, roysh, and no one says anything” 370
- Now in the speech of newcomers to Ireland 390
- The significance of age and place of residence in the positional distribution of discourse like in L2 speech 408
- Name index 433
- Subject index 437
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- The Pragmatics of Irish English and Irish 17
- “I always think of people here, you know, saying ‘like’ after every sentence” 37
- A corpus-based investigation of pragmatic markers and sociolinguistic variation in Irish English 65
- Kind of and sort of 89
- A comparative study of the pragmatic marker like in Irish English and in south-eastern varieties of British English 114
- “Actually, it’s unfair to say that I was throwing stones” 135
- “’Tis mad, yeah” 156
- Turn initiators in professional encounters 176
- “And your wedding is the twenty-second <.> of June is it?” 203
- “Hurry up baby son all the boys is finished their breakfast” 229
- Pragmatic markers as implicit emotive anchoring 248
- “Sure this is a great country for drink and rowing at elections” 270
- Blathering Beauties 292
- Pragmatic markers in contemporary radio advertising in Ireland 318
- “Yeah well, probably, you know I wasn’t that big into school, you know” 348
- “There’s, like, total silence again, roysh, and no one says anything” 370
- Now in the speech of newcomers to Ireland 390
- The significance of age and place of residence in the positional distribution of discourse like in L2 speech 408
- Name index 433
- Subject index 437
