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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
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

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.