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Publication details [#4375]

Harrah, David. 1976. Formal message theory and non-formal discourse. In Dijk, Teun A. Van, ed. Pragmatics of language and literature. North-Holland. pp. 59–76.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

formality | message model | message2

Annotation

H. asks the question what kinds of discourse can be adequately described by means of formal message theory, the primary goal of which was to describe the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of formal messages. See also: D.Harrah (1971: 'Formal message theory').