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Publication details [#14359]

Sbisà, Marina. 2001. Illocutionary force and degree of strength in language use. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (12) : 1791–1814.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

illocutionary force | interaction | mitigation | speech act

Language as a subject

Italian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Following a revision of the concept of a speech act, the author links mitigation and reinforcement phenomena to aspects of illocutionary force; it is argued that mitigation and reinforcement finetune the illocutionary effect.