Le 'Slipping' dans les langues medievales.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Le 'Slipping' dans les langues medievales, ed. Jurg Rainer Schwyter, Erich Poppe, and Sandrine Onillon, Cahiers de L'ILSL 18 (Lausanne: Institut de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage, Universite de Lausanne, 2005). 183 pp. ISBN 2-9700468-3-0. Sw. fr. 20.00. 'Slipping' is a delightful pseudo-English neologism for 'sudden changes from indirect to direct discourse, or vice versa, in a single speech act', already discussed as a marker of outbursts of passion by Longinus in his tre...

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