Introduction: Ritual unintelligibility

Text and Talk

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 401-407

  Wirtz, Kristina ^a  

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EID: 34548106687     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/TEXT.2007.017     Document Type: Review

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