Tracing directives through text and time: Towards a methodology of corpus-based diachronic speech-act analysis

Kohnen, Thomas

doi:10.1075/pbns.176.16koh

In:Speech Acts in the History of English
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 176] 2008
► pp. 295–310

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Tracing directives through text and time: Towards a methodology of corpus-based diachronic speech-act analysis

Thomas Kohnen

Published online: 10 April 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.176.16koh

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