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The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions
Edited by Zohar Livnat, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar and Galia Hirsch
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 316] 2020
► pp. 1–16

Introduction

| Bar-Ilan University
| Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
| Bar-Ilan University
Article outline
  • 1.Conceptualizing indirectness in this book
    • 1.1The inferential view
    • 1.2The dialogic-intertextual view
    • 1.3The functional view
  • 2.Structure of the book
    • 2.1Cues for indirectness: The inferential view
    • 2.2Voices in the text: The dialogic-intertextual view
    • 2.3(In)directness as an effective choice: The functional view
  • References
Published online: 29 October 2020
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