'What makes you think you exist?': A speech move schematic and its application to pinter's the birthday party

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 177-201

  Toolan, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dramatic discourse; Interaction; Interrogation; Literary pragmatics; Speech moves; Stylistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033637902     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00046-6     Document Type: Article

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