Publications

Publication details [#42553]

Rubin, Donald L. and Cati Brown. 2005. Causal markers in tobacco industry documents: the pragmatics of responsibility. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (6) : 799–811.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

causality | marker of conversational organization | pragmatics | speaker's position | tobacco farm conversation

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This pragmatic analysis of a corpus of tobacco industry documents appears to be a valuable instrument for the evaluation of stylistic means, chosen in order to assume or deflect speaker responsibility in practical discourse.