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Publication details [#51015]

Ladegaard, Hans J. 2009. Pragmatic cooperation revisited: Resistance and non-cooperation as a discursive strategy in asymmetrical discourses. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (4) : 649–666.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | cooperation | discourse analysis | discourse strategy | pragmatic competence

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This critical discussion of Gricean (pragmatic) cooperation proposes communication accommodation theory and the resistance notion as more apt frameworks to explain the notion of cooperation and to account for the discursive strategies of non-cooperation and resistance in asymmetrical interaction.