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Abstract
The investigation of the pragmatic marker now in trial proceedings from 1560 to 1800 shows a
genre-specific usage profile with regard to its uses and functions. Courtroom “professionals” (lawyers, judges and other
officials) use now significantly more frequently than lay speakers (witnesses, victims and defendants). The
former use it to segment and highlight stages in the argumentation, as well as to control and to disalign with others’ interactive
behaviour. Self-defending litigants share these functional preferences to some extent, while all other lay persons use
now for structuring their answers and dominantly in direct-speech contexts. Now in
professional legal speech thus functions as a strategic metapragmatic framing strategy.
期刊介绍：
The Journal of Historical Pragmatics provides an interdisciplinary forum for theoretical, empirical and methodological work at the intersection of pragmatics and historical linguistics. The editorial focus is on socio-historical and pragmatic aspects of historical texts in their sociocultural context of communication (e.g. conversational principles, politeness strategies, or speech acts) and on diachronic pragmatics as seen in linguistic processes such as grammaticalization or discoursization. Contributions draw on data from literary or non-literary sources and from any language. In addition to contributions with a strictly pragmatic or discourse analytical perspective, it also includes contributions with a more sociolinguistic or semantic approach.
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