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Publication details [#54770]

Stadler, Stefanie Alexa. 2011. Coding speech acts for their degree of explicitness. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (1) : 36–50.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code | explicitness | politeness | speech act

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper presents a speech act coding system, that operates independently from modification devices yet depends on structural, syntactic and cohesive devices instead. It thus provides a more trustworthy and consistent way to code explicitness levels in speech acts.