Publications

Publication details [#4158]

Gupta, Sagar Mal. 1980. Indirect requests in Hindi: A pragmatic approach. Indian Linguistics 41 (2) : 85–90.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

indirect speech act | presupposition | requesting

Language as a subject

Hindi-Urdu

Annotation

Discussion of the semantic and pragmatic presuppositions of indirect requests in Hindi, and of the pragmatic and semantic rules mapping the pragmatic structure to the surface structure.