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Publication details [#13090]

Allan, Keith. 1998. Speech Acts: Literal and Non-Literal. In Mey, Jacob L. The concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics. Elsevier. pp. 946–947.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

interpretation | literal meaning vs. figurative meaning | pragmatics | speech act

Annotation

"Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics" entry on the interpretation of non-literal speech acts.