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Publication details [#6826]
Milroy, Lesley. 1984. Comprehension and context: Successful communication and communicative breakdown. In Trudgill, Peter, ed. Applied sociolinguistics. Academic Press. pp. 7–31.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Annotation
M. tries to explore the manner in which people communicate successfully, by focusing on miscommunications. The notion of context is explored, and conversational inferences are discussed.