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Geis, Michael L. 1996. Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction: Toward a Theory of Conversational Competence. Cambridge University Press. xiv + 248 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English

Annotation

This book lays the foundation for a computational model of conversational competence, influenced by traditional speech act theory, yet abandoning its formal semantic and syntactic principles in favor of a completely pragmatic account of communicative sequences.

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