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Publication details [#25762]

Thibault, Paul J. and Theo van Leeuwen. 1996. Grammar, society, and the speech act: Renewing the connections. Journal of Pragmatics 25 (4) : 561–585.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse | grammar1 | pragmatics | speech act | speech act theory

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper which examines problems in the theory of speech acts, presents exporting and importing models of language and discusses classic speech act theory, Habermas's re-reading and some potentially problemsolving developments in functional and discourse-based grammars.