Tanja Rütten
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tanja Rütten is involved.
Articles
2013 Formulae and performativity in Middle English documents Journal of Historical Pragmatics 14:2, pp. 285–304 | Article
This paper investigates the performative nature of Late Middle English administrative documents. While certain documents indicate the instantaneous performance of a speech act by using the canonical construction “I (hereby) + speech act verb”, explicit performatives are frequently inscribed with… read more

