Zina Petersen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Zina Petersen is involved.
Article
2005 Institution and individual in conflict: The Early Middle English Ancrene Wisse and the authority of speech acts Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:1, pp. 69–85 | Article
Though the Early Middle English Ancrene Wisse is of a genre that almost requires a certain amount of misogynistic tropes and figures, the text itself reveals an authorial voice that is reluctant to condemn the women for whom the author writes. Using speech act theory and sentence analysis, this… read more
