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Publication details [#54878]

Vela-Santos, Remedios Regina de. 2011. Verging on divine: The matter of Benedictine silence and the justification of law and language. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (9) : 2337–2359.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language | law | religion | silence

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The paper examines the case of Benedictine or monastic silence in relation to the potential and irrepressible force of justice as deconstruction, especially as it is linked to the limitations or the justification of law and language.