Publications
Publication details [#2563]
Davison, Alice. 1977. Indirect speech acts: a natural class or not? In Fasold, Ralph W. and Roger W. Shuy, eds. Studies in language variation: Semantics, syntax, phonology, pragmatics, social situations, ethnographic approaches. Georgetown University Press. pp. 152–163.
Annotation
On whether indirect speech acts have anything in common beyond the property that they indirectly convey a speech act.