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Levinson, Stephen C. 1981. Some pre-observations on the modelling of dialogue. Discourse Processes 4 (2) : 93–116. 
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Article in journal
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English
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L. criticizes speech act models of dialogue, rejecting them as general models of conversation though accepting that they may capture a number of regularities as those in adjacency pairs or ritualized sequences such as greetings.