The Notion of Indirectness in the English Language of Conversation
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| Year of publication | 1994 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Teaching English as a Foreign Language at University Level, TEMPUS Symposium |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | indirectness; tentativeness; asertion; assumption |
| Description | The article deals with the notions of indirectness and tentativeness in English conversation justifying their existence from the semantic, syntactic and sociocultural points of view. |