'Extreme communicative acts' and the boosting of illocutionary force

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2161-2178

  Wee, Lionel ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Extreme communicative acts (ECAs); Illocutionary force; Mitigation; Politics; Reinforcement; Speech acts

Indexed keywords

EID: 4444302910     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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