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Stubbs, Michael. 1983. Can I have that in writing please? Some neglected topics in speech act theory. Journal of Pragmatics 7 : 479–494.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

comprehension | speech act theory

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Annotation

On some problems in interpreting language acts, why speech act theory has failed to provide a satisfactory analysis of such interpretative problems, and what kind of a model is necessary to explain them.