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Publication details [#38963]

Wee, Lionel. 2004. Extreme communicative acts’ and the boosting of illocutionary force. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (12) : 2161–2178.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
communication | illocutionary force | speech act
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
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Annotation

This article demonstrates that non-linguistic communicative acts all constitute non-linguistic devices that boost illocutionary force.