Two polite speech acts from a diachronic perspective: Aspects of the realisation of requesting and undertaking commitments in the nineteenth-century commercial community

Del Lungo Camiciotti, Gabriella

doi:10.1075/pbns.176.07del

In:Speech Acts in the History of English
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 176] 2008
► pp. 115–131

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Two polite speech acts from a diachronic perspective: Aspects of the realisation of requesting and undertaking commitments in the nineteenth-century commercial community

Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti

Published online: 10 April 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.176.07del

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