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Clark, Herbert H. 1979. Responding to indirect speech acts. Cognitive Psychology 11 : 430–477.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
indirect speech act, comprehension of | planning | reactive speech act, production of | requesting, comprehension of | speech act sequence | telephone
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Annotation

C. outlines a model of how listeners understand indirect speech acts and plan responses to them, and the model is tested in a series of five experiments in which ordinary requests for information were made by telephone.