Publications

Publication details [#22915]

Wilson, John. 1991. The linguistic pragmatics of terrorist acts. Discourse & Society 2 (1) : 29–45.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argumentation | implicit information | political language

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

W. analyzes certain pragmatic constructs (conversational implicature/presupposition) in a question and answer session in the British House of Commons.