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Publication details [#14333]

Cutting, Joan. 2001. The speech act of the in-group. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (8) : 1207–1233.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interactional sociolinguistics | solidarity | speech act

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

A longitudinal study of the social rules and norms associated with an academic in-group, focusing on the speech acts of the students' language. A model of speech act categories reveals which speech acts express solidarity and claim in-group membership.