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Indicative
Making a statement. (semantics)
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:39PM
Indirect Speech Act
In an indirect speech act, the speaker performs two illocutionary acts with the same expression. The literal meaning of the expression is interpreted as the secondary illocutionary act, whereas the primary illocutionary act must be inferred. (pragmatics)
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