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Publication details [#48529]

Ruhl, Charles and Janet Bing. 2008. It's all my fault! The pragmatics of responsibility statements. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (4) : 537–558.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
face maintenance | formulaic expression | pragmatics | statement1
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
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Annotation

This paper deals with the pragmatics of responsibility statements, discussing in particular their general content structure and face-enhancing value.