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Publication details [#28259]

Bax, Marcel. 2002. Rites of rivalry: Ritual interaction and the emergence of indirect language use. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3 (1) : 61–106.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

figurative meaning | historical explanation | indirectness | language use | ritual

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

1566-5852

Journal DOI

10.1075/jhp

Annotation

This paper on the origin and development of indirect language use argues that mediaeval oral ritual is a precursor of the currently prevailing linguistic strategies for establishing indirect pragmatic meaning.