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Publication details [#39397]

Bonikowska, Malgorzata P. 1988. The Choice of Opting Out. Applied Linguistics 9 (2) : 169–181.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

pragmatics | speaker meaning | speech act

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This article proposes to include the analysis of the speaker's decision not to perform a speech act, i.e. his 'opting out' choice, into the domain of pragmatic research.