Publications

Publication details [#14119]

Kuhn, Elisabeth D. 1999. 'I just want to make love to you' - Seductive strategies in blues lyrics. Journal of Pragmatics 31 (4) : 525–534.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | politeness | request | song | speech act theory

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

A speech act analysis of lovemaking requests in blues songs. It is shown that these requests feature the same elements as real life requests, such as internal (e.g. hedges) and external modifiers (e.g. flattery).