A Meaning-based Analysis: Text as Purposive Communication

Callow, Kathleen; Callow, John C.

doi:10.1075/pbns.16.03cal

In:Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text
Edited by William C. Mann and Sandra A. Thompson
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 16] 1992
► pp. 5–38

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Text as Purposive Communication

A Meaning-based Analysis

Kathleen Callow

John C. Callow

Published online: 8 April 1992

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.16.03cal

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