Requests and directness in Early Modern English trial proceedings and play-texts, 1640-1760

Culpeper, Jonathan; Archer, Dawn

doi:10.1075/pbns.176.05cul

In:Speech Acts in the History of English
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 176] 2008
► pp. 45–84

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Requests and directness in Early Modern English trial proceedings and play-texts, 1640-1760

Jonathan Culpeper

Dawn Archer

Published online: 10 April 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.176.05cul

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