On Indirectness and Implicitness in Authentic English Conversation.
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| Year of publication | 2001 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | The Tongue is an Eye. A Festschrift for Libuše Dušková. |
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| Citation | URBANOVÁ, Ludmila. On Indirectness and Implicitness in Authentic English Conversation. In The Tongue is an Eye. A Festschrift for Libuše Dušková. Prague: Deaprtment of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles university and Czech Modern Languages Association, 2001, p. 117-128. ISBN 80-85899-96-5. |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | indirectness; implicitness; authentic conversation; implicature |
| Description | The article deals with the notions of indirectness and implicitness in authentic English conversation. Theoretical sources are compared and re-interpreted with regard to the function of implicature in English conversational discourse. |