Preliminary hypotheses: Manipulation and cognitive pragmatics

de Saussure, Louis

doi:10.1075/dapsac.17.07sau

In:Manipulation and Ideologies in the Twentieth Century: Discourse, language, mind
Edited by Louis de Saussure and Peter J. Schulz
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 17] 2005
► pp. 113–145

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Manipulation and cognitive pragmatics

Preliminary hypotheses

Louis de Saussure

Published online: 22 December 2005

https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.17.07sau

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