Illustrated with numerous in-depth case studies, this pioneering book provides a cutting-edge introduction to ritual language use, a fundamental aspect of communication in everyday life. Offering a new framework for the pragmatic study of ritual, it is essential reading for both researchers and students in pragmatics and applied linguistics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Author(s): Daniel Z. (Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China and Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) Kadar