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Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Journal Title: Journal of Historical Pragmatics Volume Number: 4 Issue Number: 2 Issue Date: 2003 Subtitle: Ritual Language Behaviour Main text: Table of contents Articles Ritual modes, ritual minds: Introduction to the special issue on ritual language behaviour Marcel Bax 159 - 170 The Rg Vedic hymn as a ritual speech event: About some grammatical-rhetorical features of 10.39 from a pragmatic perspective Gabriela Nik. Ilieva 171 - 193 Simultaneities in Vedic ritual Frits Staal 195 - 210 Ritual performance and the politics of identity: On the functions and uses of ritual Jan Koster 211 - 248 The search for origins: Ritual aspects of the performance of epic Karl Reichl 249 - 267 Poetry, language, and ritual performance Marco Haverkort and Jan H. de Roder 269 - 286 Goading, ritual discord and the deflection of blame Jane Tolmie 287 - 301 Civil rites: Ritual politeness in early modern Dutch letter-writing Marcel Bax and Nanne Streekstra 303 - 325 Book Reviews Review of "Historical Dialogue Analysis" by Andreas H. Jucker, Gerd Fritz, and Franz Lebsanft Leslie K. Arnovick 327 - 336 Review of "English Diachronic Pragmatics" by Gabriella Di Martino and Maria Lima Mari Pakkala-Weckstr�m 336 - 339 Forthcoming papers 341 Index to Volume 4 343 - 344 For more information: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=JHP Lingfield(s): Historical Linguistics & PragmaticsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue