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Publication details [#20409]

Holmes, Janet. 1984. Modifying illocutionary force. Journal of Pragmatics 8 : 345–365.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

illocution

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Discussion of linguistic strategies and devices which may be used to modify the illocutionary force of speech acts (e.g. mitigation, attenuation, boasting), and their effect on positively affective and negatively affective speech acts.