Speech act attenuation in the history of English: The case of apologies
This paper develops a new theoretical framework to describe the long diachrony of speech acts. Such an undertaking requires a careful reconsideration of some of the basic properties of the nature of speech acts. It requires a clear differentiation between the functional profile, or illocutionary pot...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-04-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5152/ |