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Publication details [#42553]

Rubin, Donald L. and Cati Brown. 2005. Causal markers in tobacco industry documents: the pragmatics of responsibility. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (6) : 799–811.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This pragmatic analysis of a corpus of tobacco industry documents appears to be a valuable instrument for the evaluation of stylistic means, chosen in order to assume or deflect speaker responsibility in practical discourse.