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Publication details [#42574]

Capone, Alessandro. 2005. Pragmemes (a study with reference to English and Italian). Journal of Pragmatics 37 (9) : 1355–1371.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | goal | meaning | pragmatic interpretation | speech act

Language as a subject

English | Italian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Accentuating the importance of studying the context of use of a speech act, it is argued that we have to concentrate on units of pragmatic analysis such as the pragmeme, a situated speech act in which the combined rules of language and society determine meaning.