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Flowerdew, John. 1991. Pragmatic modifications on the 'representative' speech act of defining. Journal of Pragmatics 15 (3) : 253–264.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
definition | pragmatics | representative | speech act
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article offers a data-based analysis of the 'representative' speech act of defining, and shows how it can be subject to pragmatic modifications.