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Performative Speech Act Verbs and Sincerity in Anglo-Norman and Middle English Letters
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Williams, Graham Trevor – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper investigates performative manifestations of sincerity across Anglo-Norman and Middle English. In particular, it locates adverbial sincerity markers used to qualify performative speech act verbs in late medieval letters (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries), at a point when Middle English was rapidly replacing Anglo-Norman as the…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Verbs, English, Diachronic Linguistics