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Publication details [#14211]

Papafragou, Anna. 2000. On speech-act modality. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (5) : 519–538.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

metarepresentation | modality | relevance | speech act

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues in favor of Sweetser's proposal to take up 'speech-act modality' alongside root and epistemic modality on the basis of the relevance-theoretic notion of metarepresentation.