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Publication details [#35063]

Isaacs, Ellen A. and Herbert H. Clark. 1990. Ostensible invitations. Language in Society 19 (4) : 493–509.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

inviting | language use | ostensive definition | pretending | speech act

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper deals with ostensible invitations as part of a class of ostensible speech acts, and their relation to other types of nonserious language use.