Publications

Publication details [#53066]

Tickoo, Asha. 2010. On assertion without free speech. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (6) : 1577–1594.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

asserting | language use | power | pragmatic language

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study discusses how a speaker may verbally take away a hearer's rights, or revoke the right of free speech, by deploying a realization of a specific type of pragmatic assertion, referred to as 'linguistic ‘disempowerment’.