Asking the Way and Telling the Law
Speech in Medieval Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3557796 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Toch (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 667 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/204540 |
| OpenAlex | W2323340103 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Asking the Way and Telling the Law: Speech in Medieval Germany Philosophers of language and sociolinguists have claimed for some time that there is more to than its function as a vehicle of communication. By the very act of speaking people act and are acted upon. This interchange is effected in speech acts, segments of talk that are socially recognizable, recurring, and structured by rules, as well as in speech events, larger segments of bilateral talk which are seen as the basic unit for the analysis of verbal interaction. Both acts and events encode social meaning and serve ends besides conveying information. Both do things with words. 1
Free speech · Political science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Law · Linguistic research and analysis · Linguistics and language evolution
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1988 - 2023 (36) |
| Highly cited | No |