How to Say Things with Wars: Performativity and Discursive Rupture in the Requerimiento of the Spanish Conquest

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 182-200

  Faudree, Paja ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Indeterminacy; Legal genres; Participant roles; Performativity; Ritual speech

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876097308     PISSN: 10551360     EISSN: 15481395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2012.01152.x     Document Type: Article

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