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Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. 1980. How to look as if you aren't doing anything with words: Speech act qualification. Versus 26-27 : 29–47.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
intensification | mitigation | performative

Annotation

L. analyzes the phenomena of mitigation and of intensification with regard to performative utterances and to their conversational force.