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Publication details [#3781]

Givón, Talmy. 1984. The speech-act continuum. In Chisholm, William S., Louis T. Milic and John A.C. Greppin, eds. Interrogativity. A colloquium on the grammar, typology and pragmatics of questions in seven diverse languages, Cleveland, Ohio, October 5th 1981-May 3rd 1982. John Benjamins. pp. 245–254.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational maxim | conversational postulate | speech act

Annotation

A discussion of the usefulness of defining speech acts as totally discrete categories, each with its own conversational maxims or postulates.