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Publication details [#31943]

Myers, Greg. 1992. "In this paper we report ...'': Speech acts and scientific facts. Journal of Pragmatics 17 (4) : 295–313.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

scientific language | speech act | text, production of

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper deals with self-referential introductory statements and main knowledge claims as assertive speech acts in scientific reports. A comparison to claims in linguistic discourse suggests how pragmatic text analysis may contribute to an understanding of social acts in scientific knowledge production.