The essential inadequacies of speech act models of dialogue

Levinson, Stephen C.

doi:10.1075/slcs.7.28lev

In:Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics: Proceedings of the Conference on Pragmatics, Urbino, July 8–14, 1979
Edited by Herman Parret, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren
[Studies in Language Companion Series 7] 1981
► pp. 473–492

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The essential inadequacies of speech act models of dialogue

Stephen C. Levinson

Published online: 1 January 1981

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.7.28lev

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