Inferences and Indirectness in Interaction

I explore some of the interconnections between inferences that participants make about one another’s (verbal) conduct, the implications they attribute to prior turns at talk, and the indirectness with which recipients may respond to enquiries - in short, the interconnections between inference, impli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Drew Paul
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2018-08-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0013