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Powell, Mava Jo. 1992. Semantic/pragmatic regularities in informal lexis: British speakers in spontaneous conversational settings. Text 12 (1) : 19–58.

Powell, Mava Jo. 1990. Nonrules and plausibility: An illustration in pragmatic theory. Journal of Pragmatics : 589–627.

Powell, Mava Jo. 1989. Idealizations in discourse theory construction: Observational analogues from truthconditional semantics to statutory interpretation. Text 9 (2) : 191–229.

Powell, Mava Jo. 1985. Purposive vaqueness: an evaluative dimension of vague quantifying expressions. Journal of Linguistics 21 : 31–50.

Powell, Mava Jo. 1981. The notion of literal meaning in speech act theory. Nottingham Linguistic Circular 10 (1) : 1–23.