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Wavell, Bruce B. 1983. The dialectical level of pragmatics. In Borbé, Tasso, ed. Semiotics unfolding: Proceedings of the Second Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Vienna, July 1979. Mouton. pp. 1263–1268.
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Article in book
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English
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W. identifies a dialectical level of pragmatics at which all speech acts are conventionally required to be valid, sound and sincere. Postulating the existence of such a level is said to throw light on a number of linguistic phenomena (including Austin's 'misfires' and 'abuses').