What if…? Imagining non-Western perspectives on pragmatic theory and practice

2019/05/01 by Felix K. Ameka, Marina Terkourafi · 1 voice · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Discourse Analysis in Language Studies #Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

paper · doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2019.04.001

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Citations

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Discussions

• Naturally I was interested in what the paper says about conversation. The claim about indirectness in Yoruba and other languages is sourced to a very nice piece by Felix Ameka and Marina Terkourafi: h [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]