A story from a playback theatre performance and the enactment of the same story is analysed using James P. Gee's discourse characteristics and Walter J. Ong's orality formulae. The analysis is done by
This paper examines Shakespeare’s Henry V from the perspective of the play’s deep concern with languages and with the dynamics of their interaction. The drama is characterised by linguistic heterogene
Recent studies in historical pragmatics have focused on the performative language of the Renaissance, drawing on J. L. Austin’s distinction between “constative” and “performative” utteranc
