Publications

Publication details [#6081]

Leiber, Justin. 1979. Insulting. Philosophia 8 (4) : 549–571.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

insulting | ritual insult

Person as a subject

Labov, W.

Annotation

Wide-ranging interdisciplanary observations on the 'speech act' of insulting (including insults of the ritual type as studied by W. Labov 1972: 'Rules for ritual insults').