Publications

Publication details [#53000]

Capone, Alessandro. 2010. On the social practice of indirect reports (further advances in the theory of pragmemes). Journal of Pragmatics 42 (2) : 377–391.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

indirectness | language game | relevance theory | report

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study addresses the social practice of indirect reports and considers them as cases of language games. It presents a number of principles and links them to relevance theoretic considerations.