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Panther, Klaus-Uwe. 1981. Indirect speech act markers or why some linguistic signs are non-arbitrary. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 17 : 295–302.
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Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Annotation
P. explores some of the motivations which the members of a speech community might have to establish particular conventions of usage. He argues that at least some of these conventions have a 'natural' source.