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Publication details [#25678]

McEvoy, Sebastian T. 1995. "I´m sorry but ...": The assessment of the descriptive meaning of prima facie non-descriptive or at most only semi-descriptive utterances. Journal of Pragmatics 24 (1/2) : 35–53.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

description, production of | pragmatics | status theory | utterance

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Relying on the description of BUT and the theory of STATUS, this analysis shows that the implicit descriptive meanings of utterances like I'M SORRY are largely controlled by the semantic-pragmatic category of the utterance following BUT, and vary more than usually supposed.