Speech acts now and then: Towards a pragmatic history of English

Taavitsainen, Irma; Jucker, Andreas H.

doi:10.1075/pbns.176.02taa

In:Speech Acts in the History of English
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 176] 2008
► pp. 1–23

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Speech acts now and then: Towards a pragmatic history of English

Irma Taavitsainen

Andreas H. Jucker

Published online: 10 April 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.176.02taa

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