Articles The sullen and the talkative: Discourse strategies in the Salem examinations Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Matti Rissanen 1–24
Telling tales: The role of scribes in constructing the discourse of the Salem witchcraft trials Kathleen L. Doty 25–41
Trial discourse and manuscript context: Scribal profiles in the Salem witchcraft records Risto Hiltunen and Matti Peikola 43–68
A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change Kate Beeching 69–108
Concepts for analyzing deception in discourse intended to be persuasive: Two case studies from Shakespearean drama Juhani Rudanko 109–126
Reviews Norman F. Blake. 2002. A Grammar of Shakespeare's Language / Jonathan Hope. 2003. Shakespeare's Grammar. Reviewed by Ulrich Busse 127–137
Burke, Peter. 2004. Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe Reviewed by Minna Palander-Collin 137–143
Nevalainen, Terttu, and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg. 2003. Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England Reviewed by Dieter Stein 143–146
Smitterberg, Erik. 2005. The Progressive in Nineteenth-Century English. A Process of Integration Reviewed by Sebastian Hoffmann 146–152