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Publication details [#31938]

Sarangi, Srikant and Stef Slembrouck. 1992. Non-cooperation in communication: A reassessment of Gricean pragmatics. Journal of Pragmatics 17 (2) : 117–154.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | cooperation | institutional context | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses how Gricean pragmatics could account for and explain institutional discourse, formulating some reassessment proposals contained within an appeal for an extended social pragmatics that goes beyond meaning on the speaker-hearer basis and beyond the immediate discourse situation.