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Publication details [#31934]

Rees, M. Agnes van. 1992. The adequacy of speech act theory for explaining conversational phenomena: A response to some conversation analytical critics. Journal of Pragmatics 17 (1) : 31–47.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | speech act theory

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper answers some criticism on the adequacy of speech act theory as an instrument for the analysis and explanation of functional and sequential phenomena of ordinary conversation.