Ritual Language Behaviour

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4:2 (2003)

Editor
Marcel Bax | University of Groningen
[Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 4:2] 2003.  iv, 185 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 6 June 2003
Table of Contents
Articles
Ritual modes, ritual minds: Introduction to the special issue on ritual language behaviour
Marcel Bax
159–170
The Rg Vedic hymn as a ritual speech event: About some grammatical-rhetorical features of 10.39 from a pragmatic perspective
Gabriela Nik. Ilieva
171–193
Simultaneities in Vedic ritual
Frits Staal
195–210
Ritual performance and the politics of identity: On the functions and uses of ritual
Jan Koster
211–248
The search for origins: Ritual aspects of the performance of epic
Karl Reichl
249–267
Poetry, language, and ritual performance
Marco Haverkort and Jan H. de Roder
269–286
Goading, ritual discord and the deflection of blame
Jane Tolmie
287–301
Civil rites: Ritual politeness in early modern Dutch letter-writing
Marcel Bax and Nanne Streekstra
303–325
Book Reviews
Review of Jucker, Fritz & Lebsanft (1999): Historical Dialogue Analysis
Reviewed by Leslie K. Arnovick
327–336
Review of Martino & Lima (2000): English Diachronic Pragmatics
Reviewed by Mari Pakkala-Weckström
336–339
Forthcoming papers
341
Index to Volume 4
343–344
Subjects