Abstract
AbstractIn this paper, I examine a form of argumentation employed by one of the most prominent parliamentarian news pamphlets of the English Civil War (1642–1649). The pamphlet in question isMercurius Britanicus. It was founded to counter through its pages the news that was being published inMercurius Aulicus, the foremost royalist publication. In its animadversion ofAulicus’s news,Britanicusfirst repeated the royalist text, and then responded to it. In my study, I shall focus on instances where the not wholly faithful reporting ofAulicus’s text leads to (socio)pragmatic meanings. I have taken into consideration both the wider social context in which the pamphlet writers were writing as well as the immediate situational context – the pamphlet as a genre. In my analysis ofBritanicus’s animadversion, I examine titles of courtesy and the omission and substitution of words.
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