Jane Tolmie

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jane Tolmie plays a role.

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Tolmie, Jane 2003 Goading, ritual discord and the deflection of blame Ritual Language Behaviour, Bax, Marcel (ed.), pp. 287–301 | Article
This article brings some of the discourses of contemporary frame analysis to bear on female incitement — often called goading or whetting (from hvetja ‘to whet’) — in feud structures within several well-known medieval Icelandic family sagas. Broadly speaking, female goading in saga literature is a… read more