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Harrah, David. 1971. Formal message theory. In Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua, ed. Pragmatics of natural languages. Reidel. pp. 68–83.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

formality | institutional context | logic | message model | message2

Annotation

Outline of a formal theory within which it would be possible to describe the communicative force, the pragmatic content, etc. of formal messages, i.e. instances of the formal sort of communication used in large organizations.