Publications

Publication details [#42655]

Cook, Guy and Tony Walter. 2005. Rewritten rites: language and social relations in traditional and contemporary funerals. Discourse & Society 16 (3) : 365–391.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | pragmatics | religious language | semantics1

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Comparing the openings of a traditional and contemporary Christian religious funeral and of a secular alternative, this paper considers pragmatic, semantic and linguistic changes.