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Levinson, Stephen C. 1981. The essential inadequacies of speech act models of dialogue. In Parret, Herman, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren, eds. Possibilities and limitations of pragmatics. John Benjamins. pp. 473–492.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational strategy | speech act theory

Annotation

L. argues against speech act models of dialogue, contending that conversational sequencing is not rule-based but strategy-based.