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Publication details [#53141]

Kecskés, István. 2010. Situation-bound utterances as pragmatic acts. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (11) : 2889–2897.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

explaining | pragmatics | situation | utterance

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study discusses how situation-bound utterances apply to pragmemes referring to generalized pragmatic acts. It argues that from the perspective of situation-bound utterances, the explanatory movement in a theory of pragmatic acts should go from the outside in and from the inside out.