Chapter 9
Metonymic inferencing in indirect speech acts I
Assertives and commissives
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The role of metonymic inferencing in indirect speech acts
- 2.1Assertives
- 2.1.1Inferences from before to core
- 2.1.2Inference from hedged core to core
- 2.1.3Inferences from result to core
- 2.1.4Inferences from after to core
- 2.2Commissives
- 2.2.1Inferences from before to core
- 2.2.2Inferences from hedged core to core
- 2.2.3Inferences from result to core
- 2.2.4Inferences from after to core
- 3.Conclusion
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Notes