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Publication details [#12662]

Danet, Brenda. 1997. Speech, writing and performativity: an evolutionary view of the history of constitutive ritual. In Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise, Per Linell and Bengt Nordberg. The Construction of Professional discourse. (Language in Social Life). Longman. pp. 13–41.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
context dependence | legal text | literacy | performativity | spoken language | written language
Language as a subject
English, Old

Annotation

An overview of the origins, evolution and future of language performativity in legal discourse.