Embedded metapragmatics and lying politicians
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Embedded Metapragmatics and Lying Politicians
A metapragmatic expression denotes an event of speaking. An embedded metapragmatic construction embeds one metapragmatic expression within another, as in "Bush said Clinton lied." This article reports that embedded metapragmatic constructions, when used in television news coverage of U.S. political campaigns, most often predicate on the topic of lying. Simple metapragmatic constructions in this...
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عنوان ژورنال: Language & Communication
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0271-5309
DOI: 10.1016/s0271-5309(98)00021-4