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Publication details [#23066]
Gibbs, Raymond W. and Rachel A. G. Mueller. 1988. Conversational sequences and preference for indirect speech acts. Discourse Processes 11 (1) : 101–116. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Annotation
The authors report on two experiments concerning people's preference for making indirect requests in conversation. Especially the influence of pre-requests is examined.