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Publication details [#10517]

Bois, John W. Du. 1986. Self-evidence and ritual speech. In Chafe, Wallace L. and Johanna Nichols, eds. Evidentiality: The linguistic coding of epistemology. Ablex Publishing Company. pp. 313–336.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

authority | religious language | ritual

Annotation

On how speakers of religious or ritual utterances offer evidence or authority for what they say.