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Publication details [#7097]

Norrick, Neal R. 1981. Nondirect speech acts and double binds. Poetics 10 (1) : 33–47.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational maxim | double-bind | indirect speech act

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

N. argues that in many cases speakers formulate nondirect, i.e. figurative or indirect, speech acts in response to double binds resulting from a conflict of conversational and nonconversational maxims.