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Performative speech act verbs and sincerity in Anglo-Norman and Middle English letters

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Published in 2020 at "Multilingua"

DOI: 10.1515/multi-2019-0011

Abstract: Abstract This paper investigates performative manifestations of sincerity across Anglo-Norman and Middle English. In particular, it locates adverbial sincerity markers used to qualify performative speech act verbs in late medieval letters (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries),… read more here.

Keywords: sincerity; norman middle; performative speech; speech act ... See more keywords