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Publication details [#39008]

Hickey, L. 1986. Illocutionary force switching and ethics in interviews. Journal of Pragmatics 10 (4) : 445–452.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethics | illocution | interview

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses illocutionary force shifting and ethics in an interview situation. It is argued that the illocutionary act of ‘responding’ differs from ‘asserting’.