Tanja Rütten

List of John Benjamins publications for which Tanja Rütten plays a role.

Articles

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Rütten, Tanja 2013 Formulae and performativity in Middle English documents Journal of Historical Pragmatics 14:2, pp. 285–304 | Article
This paper investigates the performative nature of Late Middle English administrative documents. While certain documents indicate the instantaneous performance of a speech act by using the canonical construction “I (hereby) + speech act verb”, explicit performatives are frequently inscribed with… read more
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Rütten, Tanja 2012 Review of Loetz (2009): Dealings with God. From Blasphemers in Early Modern Zurich to a Cultural History of Religiousness Journal of Historical Pragmatics 13:1, pp. 153–157 | Review