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Publication details [#26721]

Macaulay, Marcia. 1996. Asking to ask: The strategic function of indirect requests for information in interviews. Pragmatics 6 (4) : 491–509.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
indirect speech act | information chunking | interview | request
Language as a subject
English, American
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper is concerned with direct and indirect requests in radio and television interviews (including two interviews with M. Thatcher).