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

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.4.2

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

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Historical linguistics