Comprehending Indirect Replies: When and How Are Their Conveyed Meanings Activated?

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 519-540

  Holtgraves, Thomas ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Conversation; Face work; Grice; Implicatures; Indirectness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142235340     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1999.2657     Document Type: Article

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