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Wirth, Jessica R. 1979. Discourse grammars and conversational principles. In Perry, Thomas A., ed. Evidence and argumentation in linguistics. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 47–72.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English

Annotation

W. argues that both a grammar of discourse and a theory of conversation (using Gricean principles of conversation) are necessary, because each can explain certain linguistic facts which cannot be accounted for by the other.