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Publication details [#23140]
Flowerdew, John L. 1992. Salience in the performance of one speech act: The case of definitions. Discourse Processes 15 (2) : 165–181. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Annotation
F. examines aspects of salience in the speech act of `defining'. Two dimensions of salience are studied: salience of the various components of the speech act in relation to each other, and salience of the total speech act in the whole of the text.