Unfinished speech acts.

In this paper I characterize an unexplored category of what I call unfinished speech acts (USA), intentionally designed by the speaker as incomplete, and intended to be finalised by the hearer. The speaker relies on the hearer’s contribution because she is willing to minimize conversational risk reg...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 204; no. 5; pp. 1 - 19
Autor principal: Bianchi, Claudia
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Nov2024
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        Flirting
        Implicatures
        Insinuations
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