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Publication details [#2859]

Ducrot, Oswald. 1979. Les lois de discours. La Langue Française 42 : 21–33.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

French

Keywords

conventionality | conversational maxim | pragmatic theory

Annotation

A discussion on the methodological necessity of using the concept of conversational maxim in the linguistic description of utterances, and on the fundamental alternative between the conventionalist and the conversationalist positions in pragmatics.